Incidence of influenza-associated mortality and hospitalizations in Argentina during 2002-2009
| Autor: | Ricardo Basurto-Davila, Airlane Pereira Alencar, Horacio Echenique, Enio Garcia, Otavio Oliva, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Joseph Breese, Marc-Alain Widdowson, Rakhee Palekar, Clarisa Báez, David K. Shay, Regilo de Souza, María Pía Buyayisqui, Ana María Cabrera, Gabriela Kusznierz, Emanuel Pérez, Eleonora Poyard, Rogelio Calli, Thais dos Santos, Po-Yung Cheng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Excess mortality Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Mortality rate Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Influenza season medicine.disease Hospitalization rate Vaccination Pneumonia symbols.namesake Infectious Diseases medicine symbols Poisson regression business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 7:710-717 |
| ISSN: | 1750-2640 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/irv.12022 |
| Popis: | Background We estimated rates of influenza-associated deaths and hospitalizations in Argentina, a country that recommends annual influenza vaccination for persons at high risk of complications from influenza illness. Methods We identified hospitalized persons and deaths in persons diagnosed with pneumonia and influenza (P&I, ICD-10 codes J10-J18) and respiratory and circulatory illness (R&C, codes I00-I99 and J00-J99). We defined the influenza season as the months when the proportion of samples that tested positive for influenza exceeded the annual median. We used hospitalizations and deaths during the influenza off-season to estimate, using linear regression, the number of excess deaths that occurred during the influenza season. To explore whether excess mortality varied by sex and whether people were age |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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