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Editor, Senior Moderator
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010;31:421?424
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DOI: 10.1086/651311
Concise Communication
Risk Factors for Healthcare‐Associated, Laboratory‐Confirmed Influenza in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients: A Case‐Control Study
Kateri H. Leckerman, MS;
Eileen Sherman, MS;
Jillian Knorr, BS;
Theoklis E. Zaoutis, MD, MSCE;
Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH
From the Division of Infectious Diseases (K.H.L., T.E.Z., S.E.C.), the Department of Infection Prevention and Control (E.S., J.K., S.E.C.), and the Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (T.E.Z., S.E.C.), Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (T.E.Z., S.E.C.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
We conducted a case‐control study of 46 hospitalized pediatric patients with healthcare‐associated laboratory‐confirmed influenza (HA‐LCI). We sought to determine the characteristics and outcomes of children with HA‐LCI and to identify risk factors for HA‐LCI. Although we failed to identify any differences in clinical exposures during the 3 days prior to onset of HA‐LCI, multivariate analysis showed that asthma was an independent risk factor for HA‐LCI (odds ratio, 3.49 [95% confidence interval, 1.25?9.75]).
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/do...%7Cany%3A+influenza+h1n1%5D&searchHistoryKey=
? 2010 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.
0899-823X/2010/3104-0018$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/651311
Concise Communication
Risk Factors for Healthcare‐Associated, Laboratory‐Confirmed Influenza in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients: A Case‐Control Study
Kateri H. Leckerman, MS;
Eileen Sherman, MS;
Jillian Knorr, BS;
Theoklis E. Zaoutis, MD, MSCE;
Susan E. Coffin, MD, MPH
From the Division of Infectious Diseases (K.H.L., T.E.Z., S.E.C.), the Department of Infection Prevention and Control (E.S., J.K., S.E.C.), and the Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (T.E.Z., S.E.C.), Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (T.E.Z., S.E.C.), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
We conducted a case‐control study of 46 hospitalized pediatric patients with healthcare‐associated laboratory‐confirmed influenza (HA‐LCI). We sought to determine the characteristics and outcomes of children with HA‐LCI and to identify risk factors for HA‐LCI. Although we failed to identify any differences in clinical exposures during the 3 days prior to onset of HA‐LCI, multivariate analysis showed that asthma was an independent risk factor for HA‐LCI (odds ratio, 3.49 [95% confidence interval, 1.25?9.75]).
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/do...%7Cany%3A+influenza+h1n1%5D&searchHistoryKey=