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Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
Mortality burden of the 2009‐10 influenza pandemic in the United States: improving the timeliness of influenza severity estimates using inpatient mortality records
Vivek Charu2  Lone Simonsen4  Roger Lustig3  Claudia Steiner1 
[1] Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, USA;Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;Sage Analytica, Bethesda, MD, USA;Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
关键词: Age patterns;    influenza;    influenza‐related mortality;    pandemic influenza;    years of life lost;   
DOI  :  10.1111/irv.12096
来源: Wiley
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【 摘 要 】

Abstract

Background

Delays in the release of national vital statistics hinder timely assessment of influenza severity, especially during pandemics. Inpatient mortality records could provide timelier estimates of influenza-associated mortality.

Methods

We compiled weekly age-specific deaths for various causes from US State Inpatient Databases (1990–2010) and national vital statistics (1990–2009). We calculated influenza-attributable excess deaths by season based on Poisson regression models driven by indicators of respiratory virus activity, seasonality, and temporal trends.

Results

Extrapolations of excess mortality from inpatient data fell within 11% and 17% of vital statistics estimates for pandemic and seasonal influenza, respectively, with high year-to-year correlation (Spearman's rho = 0·87–0·90, P < 0·001, n = 19). We attribute 14 800 excess respiratory and cardiac deaths (95% CI: 10 000–19 650) to pandemic influenza activity during April 2009–April 2010, 79% of which occurred in people under 65 years.

Conclusions

Modeling inpatient mortality records provides useful estimates of influenza severity in advance of national vital statistics release, capturing both the magnitude and the age distribution of pandemic and epidemic deaths. We provide the first age- and cause-specific estimates of the 2009 pandemic mortality burden using traditional ‘excess mortality’ methods, confirming the unusual burden of this virus in young populations. Our inpatient-based approach could help monitor mortality trends in other infectious diseases.

【 授权许可】

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© 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

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