Respiratory Viral Testing Rate Patterns in Young Children Attending Tertiary Care Across Western Australia: A Population-Based Birth Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An understanding of viral testing rates is crucial to accurately estimate the pathogen-specific hospitalisation burden. We aimed to estimate the patterns of testing for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza virus, parainfluenza virus (PIV) and human metapneumovirus (hMPV) by geographical location, age and time in children <5 years old in Western Australia.

Methods

We conducted a population-based cohort study of children born between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2021, utilising linked administrative data incorporating birth and death records, hospitalisations and respiratory viral surveillance testing records from state-wide public pathology data. We examined within-hospital testing rates using survival analysis techniques and identified independent predic

SUBMITTER: Taye BW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11369639 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature