Household presentation of influenza and acute respiratory illnesses to a primary care sentinel network: retrospective database studies (2013-2018).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Direct observation of the household spread of influenza and respiratory infections is limited; much of our understanding comes from mathematical models. The study aims to determine household incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI), lower (LRTI) and upper (URTI) respiratory infections within a primary care routine data and identify factors associated with the diseases' incidence.

Methods

We conducted two five-year retrospective analyses of influenza-like illness (ILI), lower (LRTI) and upper (URTI) respiratory infections using the England Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) primary care sentinel network database; a cross-sectional study reporting incident rate ratio (IRR) from a negative binomial model and a retros

SUBMITTER: de Lusignan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7677442 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature