Evaluation of Influenza A H1N1 infection and antiviral utilization in a tertiary care hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Influenza A H1N1 infections carry a significant mortality risk. This study describes inpatients with suspected and confirmed Influenza A H1N1 infection who were prescribed oseltamivir, the risk factors associated with infection, the association between infection and mortality, and the factors associated with in-hospital mortality in infected patients.

Methods

This study was a matched case-control study of hospitalized patients who underwent real-time polymerase chain reaction testing for Influenza A H1N1 and were treated with oseltamivir from 2009 to 2015 in a tertiary care hospital. Cases (patients with positive Influenza A H1N1 testing) were matched 1:1 to controls (patients with negative test results).

Results

A total of 1405 inpatients who underwent PCR

SUBMITTER: Belucci TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6240327 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature