Relationship between the number of pediatric patients with rotavirus and telephone triage for associated symptoms
| Autor: | Sho Komukai, Tasuku Matsuyama, Ken-ichiro Ishida, Yusuke Katayama, Takeyuki Kiguchi, Kosuke Kiyohara, Tomoya Hirose, Takeshi Shimazu, Tetsuhisa Kitamura |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Rotavirus Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Rotavirus Infections medicine.disease_cause 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Japan Telephone triage medicine Clinical endpoint Humans Children Retrospective Studies Syndromic surveillance business.industry Incidence Infant Newborn Infant 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Retrospective cohort study General Medicine Telephone Child Preschool Emergency Medicine Vomiting Linear Models Female medicine.symptom Triage business Sentinel Surveillance |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 39:6-10 |
| ISSN: | 1532-8171 0735-6757 |
| Popis: | Yusuke Katayama, Kosuke Kiyohara, Sho Komukai, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Kenichiro Ishida, Tomoya Hirose, Tasuku Matsuyama, Takeyuki Kiguchi, Takeshi Shimazu, Relationship between the number of pediatric patients with rotavirus and telephone triage for associated symptoms, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 39, 2021, Pages 6-10, ISSN 0735-6757, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.03.039. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675720301819) Background: Earlier syndromic surveillance may be effective in preventing the spread of infectious disease. However, there has been no research on syndromic surveillance for rotavirus. The study aimed to assess the relationship between the incidence of rotavirus infections and the number of telephone triages for associated symptoms in pediatric patients under 4 years old in Osaka prefecture, Japan. Methods: This was a retrospective observational study for which the study period was the 3 years between January 2015 and December 2017. We analyzed data on children under 4 years old who were triaged by telephone triage nurses using software. The primary endpoint was the number of rotavirus patients under 4 years triaged old per week. Using a linear regression model, we calculated the R square value of the regression model to assess the relationship between the number of patients with rotavirus and the number of telephone triages made for associated symptoms. Covariates in the linear regression model were the week number indicating seasonality and the weekly number of telephone triages related to rotavirus symptoms such as stomachache and vomiting. Results: During the study period, there were 102,336 patients with rotavirus, and the number of people triaged by telephone was 123,720. The highest correlation coefficient was 0.921 in the regression model with the number of telephone triages for “stomachache + nausea/vomiting” and “stomachache + diarrhea + nausea/vomiting”. Conclusion: The number of telephone triage symptoms was positively related to the incidence of pediatric patients with rotavirus in a large metropolitan area of Japan. |
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