Incidence of influenza‐associated mortality and hospitalizations in Argentina during 2002–2009

Please cite this paper as: Azziz‐Baumgartner et al. (2012) Incidence of influenza‐associated mortality and hospitalizations in Argentina during 2002–2009. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses DOI: 10.1111/irv.12022. Background  We estimated rates of influenza‐associated deaths and hospitalization...

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Veröffentlicht in:Influenza and other respiratory viruses 2013-09, Vol.7 (5), p.710-717
Hauptverfasser: Azziz‐Baumgartner, Eduardo, Cabrera, Ana María, Cheng, Po‐Yung, Garcia, Enio, Kusznierz, Gabriela, Calli, Rogelio, Baez, Clarisa, Buyayisqui, María Pía, Poyard, Eleonora, Pérez, Emanuel, Basurto‐Davila, Ricardo, Palekar, Rakhee, Oliva, Otavio, Alencar, Airlane Pereira, de Souza, Regilo, dos Santos, Thais, Shay, David K., Widdowson, Marc‐Alain, Breese, Joseph, Echenique, Horacio
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Zusammenfassung:Please cite this paper as: Azziz‐Baumgartner et al. (2012) Incidence of influenza‐associated mortality and hospitalizations in Argentina during 2002–2009. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses DOI: 10.1111/irv.12022. 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
ISSN:1750-2640
1750-2659
DOI:10.1111/irv.12022