The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the hospital-acquired influenza infections: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The hospital-acquired influenza (HAI) were usually contributed to severe outcomes among the inpatients. Here, we performed a meta-analysis to summarize and quantify the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of HAI.

Methods

We performed a literature search thorough PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Embase, Scopus and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and Wanfang databases for observational studies. Random/fix-effects models were used to obtain pooled proportion, odds ratio (OR), and weighted mean difference (WMD).

Results

A total of 14 studies involving 1483 HAI and 71849 non-hospital-acquired influenza infections (NHAI) cases were included.The proportion of the HAI among the influenza cases was 11.38% (95% confidence interval [C

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7982188 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature