ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2022
The Use of Death Certificate Data to Characterize Mortality Associated With Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Unspecified Bronchiolitis, and Influenza in the United States, 1999-2018.
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- Mortality Among US Infants and Children Under 5 Years of Age with Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Bronchiolitis: A Systematic Literature Review.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2022Pooled it
- Decreases in influenza vaccination coverage among nursing home healthcare workers and in measures to promote influenza vaccination, France, 2007/08 to 2024/25.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026Article
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- Quality of life burden on United States infants and caregivers due to lower respiratory tract infection and adjusting for selective testing: Pilot prospective observational study.Health science reports · 2023Article
- The Burden of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Lower Respiratory Tract Disease in Infants in the United States: A Synthesis.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Mortality Associated With Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Bronchiolitis, and Influenza Among Infants in the United States: A Birth Cohort Study From 1999 to 2018.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2022Article
- All Infants Are at Risk of Developing Medically Attended Respiratory Syncytial Virus Lower Respiratory Tract Infection and Deserve Protection.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundDeath certificate data can improve our understanding of the mortality burden associated with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza.
methodsWe used International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision codes listed on death certificates to characterize deaths from 1999 to 2018 as RSV, influenza, and unspecified bronchiolitis. We described the distribution of each cause of death by age, sex, race/ethnicity, place of death, and contributing causes of death.
resultsOver the 20-year study period, RSV, bronchiolitis, and influenza were listed as the underlying causes of death on 932, 1046, and 52 293 death certificates, respectively. Children <1 year of age accounted for 39% of RSV and bronchiolitis deaths, while 72% of influenza deaths were in adults ≥65 years. Children <1 year were more likely to die outside of the hospital from RSV, bronchiolitis, or influenza compared to all causes (P < .01), and black infants had the highest mortality rate for all 3 causes. Most infants dying from RSV did not have a high-risk condition listed on the death certificate. Death certificates captured 20%-60% of estimated excess RSV-attributable mortality in infants and <1% in seniors.
conclusionsThorough reporting on death certificates is an important public health goal, especially as new therapeutics become available. Infants had higher odds of dying out of hospital from respiratory pathogens compared to other causes, and race/ethnicity alone did not explain this disparity.
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