Predicting severe disease in patients diagnosed with seasonal influenza in the emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We sought to develop an evidence-based tool to risk stratify patients diagnosed with seasonal influenza in the emergency department (ED).

Methods

We performed a single-center retrospective cohort study of all adult patients diagnosed with influenza in a large tertiary care ED between 2008 and 2018. We evaluated demographics, triage vital signs, chest x-ray and laboratory results obtained in the ED. We used univariate and multivariate statistics to examine the composite primary outcome of death or need for intubation. We validated our findings in patients diagnosed between 2018 and 2020.

Results

We collected data from 3128 subjects; 2196 in the derivation cohort and 932 in the validation cohort. Medical comorbidities, multifocal opacities or pleural effusion

SUBMITTER: Pajor MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10511830 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature