Prevalence of infant bronchiolitis-coded healthcare encounters attributable to RSV.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

We sought to determine the proportion of bronchiolitis episodes attributable to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) among ICD-9 coded infant bronchiolitis episodes which were tested for RSV.

Methods

Bronchiolitis healthcare encounters were extracted from Kaiser Permanente Northern California databases for years 2006 to 2009. We used ICD-9 codes for bronchiolitis to capture bronchiolitis-related healthcare encounters including hospital admissions (Hospitalization), emergency department visits (EDV), and outpatient visits (OPV). We reported the monthly proportion of RSV-positive bronchiolitis episodes among tested bronchiolitis episodes. We used logistic regression to assess association between bronchiolitis episodes and patient demographic and health care characteristics. W

SUBMITTER: Turi KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6295609 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature