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dc.contributor | School of Nursing | - |
dc.creator | Wang, XL | - |
dc.creator | Wong, CM | - |
dc.creator | Chan, KH | - |
dc.creator | Chan, KP | - |
dc.creator | Cao, PH | - |
dc.creator | Peiris, JSM | - |
dc.creator | Yang, L | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-23T09:17:01Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-23T09:17:01Z | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2334 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/7725 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Biomed Central Ltd | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2014 Wang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedicationwaiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en_US |
dc.rights | The following publication Wang, X. L., Wong, C. M., Chan, K. H., Chan, K. P., Cao, P. H., Peiris, J. S. M., & Yang, L. (2014). Hospitalization risk of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic cases in Hong Kong. BMC Infectious Diseases, 14, 32, 1-6 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-32 | en_US |
dc.subject | Hospitalization | en_US |
dc.subject | Influenza | en_US |
dc.subject | Pandemic | en_US |
dc.title | Hospitalization risk of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic cases in Hong Kong | en_US |
dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 6 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 14 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1471-2334-14-32 | - |
dcterms.abstract | Background: Reliable assessment for the severity of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza is critical for evaluation of vaccination strategies for future pandemics. This study aims to estimate the age-specific hospitalization risks of the 2009 pandemic cases during the first wave in Hong Kong, by combining the findings from the serology and disease burden studies.Methods: Excess hospitalization rates associated with the pandemic H1N1 were estimated from Poisson regression models fitted to weekly total numbers of non-accidental hospitalization from 2005 to 2010. Age-specific infection-hospitalization risks were calculated as excess hospitalization rates divided by the attack rates in the corresponding age group, which were estimated from serology studies previously conducted in Hong Kong.Results: Excess hospitalization rate associated with pandemic H1N1 was highest in the 0-4 age group (881.3 per 100,000 population), followed by the 5-14, 60+, 15-29, 50-59, 30-39 and 40-49 age groups. The hospitalization risk of the infected cases (i.e. infection-hospitalization risk) was found highest in the 60+ age group and lowest in the 15-29 age group, with the estimates of 17.5% and 0.7%, respectively.Conclusions: People aged 60 or over had a relatively high infection-hospitalization risk during the first wave of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, despite of a low attack rate in this age group. The findings support the policy of listing older people as the priority group for pandemic vaccination. | - |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | en_US |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | BMC infectious diseases, 2014, v. 14, 32, p. 1-6 | - |
dcterms.isPartOf | BMC Infectious Diseases | - |
dcterms.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000330057900001 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-84892380564 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 24428855 | - |
dc.identifier.artn | 32 | - |
dc.identifier.rosgroupid | r70533 | - |
dc.description.ros | 2013-2014 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journal | - |
dc.description.oa | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.identifier.FolderNumber | OA_IR/PIRA | en_US |
dc.description.pubStatus | Published | en_US |
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