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Editor, Senior Moderator
Int Health. 2014 Nov 23. pii: ihu083. [Epub ahead of print]
Prognostic factors for mortality in patients hospitalized with influenza complications, in Taiwan.
Huang WT1, Chang CH2, Hsu YF2, Chuang JH3.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND:
This study aims to assess factors associated with fatal hospitalized influenza with complications in Taiwan.
METHODS:
We identified reports of complications and illness onset in patients hospitalized with influenza between week 26, 2009 and week 25, 2012 from the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System. We used a multivariate logistic regression model to evaluate covariates that can be associated with in-hospital mortality.
RESULTS:
Among 4735 patients (413 deaths), age ≥50 years (p<0.001), male (p=0.014), comorbidities (p<0.001), and delayed oseltamivir treatment (p<0.001) increased the likelihood of in-hospital mortality.
CONCLUSIONS:
We recommend influenza vaccination and early antiviral treatment for at-risk populations.
? The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
KEYWORDS:
Case fatality rate; Influenza; Mortality determinant; Surveillance; Taiwan
PMID:
25422279
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25422279
Prognostic factors for mortality in patients hospitalized with influenza complications, in Taiwan.
Huang WT1, Chang CH2, Hsu YF2, Chuang JH3.
Author information
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
This study aims to assess factors associated with fatal hospitalized influenza with complications in Taiwan.
METHODS:
We identified reports of complications and illness onset in patients hospitalized with influenza between week 26, 2009 and week 25, 2012 from the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System. We used a multivariate logistic regression model to evaluate covariates that can be associated with in-hospital mortality.
RESULTS:
Among 4735 patients (413 deaths), age ≥50 years (p<0.001), male (p=0.014), comorbidities (p<0.001), and delayed oseltamivir treatment (p<0.001) increased the likelihood of in-hospital mortality.
CONCLUSIONS:
We recommend influenza vaccination and early antiviral treatment for at-risk populations.
? The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
KEYWORDS:
Case fatality rate; Influenza; Mortality determinant; Surveillance; Taiwan
PMID:
25422279
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25422279