ArticleInfectious diseases and therapy2025
RSV Testing Patterns and Characteristics Associated with RSV Testing Among Adults Aged 50 Years or Older in the United States.
Article in Infectious diseases and therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Burden of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Immunocompromised Adults: A Systematic Review of the Evidence From High-Income Countries.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2026Pooled it
- Incidence of respiratory syncytial virus and influenza: A Danish nationwide cohort study.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
- Healthcare resource use and costs following RSV-related hospitalizations among US adults aged 50 years and older.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
- The Impact of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Undertesting on Estimates of Disease Burden and Vaccine Effectiveness in a Large Integrated Healthcare System.Open forum infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Global Viral Lower Respiratory Disease Episodes, Hospitalisations, and Clinical Outcomes by Aetiology, 2010-2021.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2026Article
- Article
- Outpatient RSV Testing Rates Among US Adults with Lower Respiratory Tract Disease, 2017-2024.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2026Article
- Intensive Care Unit Stay and Mechanical Ventilation Among Adults with Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Related Hospitalization by Age and Comorbidity Status.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2026Article
- In-Hospital Death and Risk Factors in Adults With Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Spain (2016-2023). A Cross-Sectional Study With Focus on Older Patients.Health science reports · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
introductionRespiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common respiratory virus that can cause severe disease, particularly in older adults and adults with underlying medical conditions. However, RSV infections often go underdiagnosed due to infrequent testing and assay sensitivity limitations. To better understand RSV epidemiology and disease burden, we investigated respiratory virus testing patterns and characteristics associated with RSV testing among United States (US) adults aged ≥ 50 years with acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs).
methodsThis was a retrospective study using Optum
resultsAmong 22,475,891 included ARIs, RSV testing occurred in 2.4% (n = 530,452) of episodes. RSV testing increased over time (1.3-5.9% from 2016-2017 to 2022-2023 EYs), though it remained markedly lower than influenza (5.8-15.1%; 2016-2017 to 2022-2023 EYs) and SARS-CoV-2 (5.8-22.6%; 2019-2020 to 2022-2023 EYs) testing. By most intensive level of care received, RSV testing from 2016-2023 was more frequent in inpatient (9.5-27.5%) and emergency department (ED; 1.4-17.9%) settings than the outpatient setting (0.3-1.4%). Among included covariates in adjusted analyses, most intensive care setting [ED: 9.3-fold, inpatient: 31.2-fold (versus outpatient)] and healthcare organization (0.02-13.8-fold) were most significantly associated with likelihood of RSV testing.
conclusionThe likelihood of RSV testing varied significantly by most intensive care setting and healthcare organization. Despite increasing RSV testing over time, RSV remains infrequently tested among US adults. Under-detection of medically-attended RSV cases should be accounted for when estimating RSV disease burden and the potential impact of RSV prevention strategies. A Graphical Abstract is available for this article.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.