Incidence, Morbidity, and Costs of Human Metapneumovirus Infection in Hospitalized Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) causes acute respiratory tract infections in infants and children. We sought to measure the clinical and economic burden of HMPV infection in hospitalized children.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study from 2007 to 2013 at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Children <18 years of age with laboratory-confirmed HMPV infection were included. Demographic, clinical, and financial data were abstracted from the electronic medical record.

Results

During the study period, 815 children were hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed HMPV infection: 16% <6 months, 50% 6-23 months, 23% 2-4 years, and 11% 5-17 years of age. A complex chronic condition was identified in 453 (56%) children hospitalized with HMPV infec

SUBMITTER: Davis CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5125451 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature