Open AccessComparison of pandemic and seasonal influenza A infections in pediatric patients: were they different?
Author(s) -
Song Xiaoyan,
DeBiasi Roberta L.,
Campos Joseph M.,
Fagbuyi Daniel B.,
Jacobs Brian R.,
Singh Nalini
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
influenza and other respiratory viruses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.743
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1750-2659
pISSN - 1750-2640
DOI - 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00258.x
Subject(s) - pandemic , medicine , epidemiology , seasonal influenza , retrospective cohort study , pandemic influenza , pediatrics , human mortality from h5n1 , asthma , emergency department , covid-19 , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , psychiatry
Please cite this paper as: Song et al. (2012) Comparison of pandemic and seasonal influenza A infections in pediatric patients: were they different?. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 6(1), 25–27. This retrospective cohort study revealed that the presence of pandemic H1N1 influenza resulted in a 77.7% increase of patient visits in the emergency department for influenza like illnesses and a 67.2% increase of hospital days in our hospital by comparing to a regular influenza season (2008–2009 season). However, median length of hospital stay was no different in either period (pandemic: 3 days versus seasonal: 4 days, P = 0.06). Except for the patients hospitalized for pandemic H1N1 influenza ( n = 111) were older (median age: 4.7 years versus 1.6 years, P = 0.04) and tended to have pre‐existing asthma (21.6% versus 9.0%, P = 0.07) than those hospitalized for seasonal influenza A infections ( n = 44), this study found no significant difference between the two comparison groups with regards of other clinical and epidemiological features.