RSV causes 160,000 hospitalizations every year in the EU, according to new study RespiratorySyncytia Virus RSV Virus Virology medrxivpreprint EdinburghUni NIHESnl UNI_FIRENZE SSI_dk koebenhavns_uni
By Tarun Sai LomteMar 20 2023Reviewed by Benedette Cuffari, M.Sc. *Important notice: medRxiv publishes preliminary scientific reports that are not peer-reviewed and, therefore, should not be regarded as conclusive, guide clinical practice/health-related behavior, or treated as established information.
RSV infection may require older adults to be hospitalized, particularly during the winter months. In fact, the mean hospitalization duration due to RSV is longer than influenza-associated hospitalization. In the first stage, modeling inputs were used from the RSV Consortium in Europe project. The RESCEU project estimated average hospitalizations and admission rates for adults in six countries, including Scotland, Netherlands, England, Denmark, Finland, and Norway, between 2006 and 2017. Data on all hospitalizations with any mention of RTI and RTI admissions with RSV diagnosis code or pathogen-specific diagnosis code were extracted.
Findings Five studies were eligible for the scoping literature review. Of these, two reported estimates for infants only and, as a result, were excluded from the analysis. Multiple imputations achieved slightly higher estimates than nearest-neighbor matching. The annual hospitalization rates and numbers were variable in the EU.
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