Hospitalizations for intussusception before and after the reintroduction of rotavirus vaccine in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether hospital discharges for intussusception in children younger than 1 year have changed since the reintroduction of rotavirus vaccine in the United States.

Design

Serial cross-sectional analysis.

Setting

US hospitals.

Participants

Children younger than 1 year with a discharge diagnosis of intussusception identified in the Kids' Inpatient Database, a series of nationally representative data sets of pediatric hospital discharges in the United States with 4 available years prior to vaccine reintroduction (1997, 2000, 2003, and 2006) and 1 year after (2009).

Main exposures

Hospital discharge before vs after rotavirus vaccine reintroduction.

Outcome measures

Total number and rate of hospital discharges for infants younger th

SUBMITTER: Zickafoose JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3442774 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature