Excess hospitalizations and mortality associated with seasonal influenza in Portugal, 2008-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Influenza can have a domino effect, triggering severe conditions and leading to hospitalization or even death. Since influenza testing is not routinely performed, statistical modeling techniques are increasingly being used to estimate annual hospitalizations and deaths associated with influenza, to overcome the known underestimation from registers coded with influenza-specific diagnosis. The aim of this study was to estimate the clinical and economic burden of severe influenza in Portugal.

Methods

The study comprised ten epidemic seasons (2008/09-2017/18) and used two approaches: (i) a direct method of estimating the seasonal influenza hospitalization incidence, based on the number of National Health Service hospitalizations with influenza-specific International C

SUBMITTER: Froes F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9450401 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature