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Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and Vaccine Access and Delivery Global Program, PATH, Seattle, WA Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Comment

Justin R Ortiz et al. Crit Care Med. 2015 Apr.

. 2015 Apr;43(4):e118.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000887.

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and Vaccine Access and Delivery Global Program, PATH, Seattle, WA Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

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The burden of influenza-associated critical illness hospitalizations.
Ortiz JR, Neuzil KM, Shay DK, Rue TC, Neradilek MB, Zhou H, Seymour CW, Hooper LG, Cheng PY, Goss CH, Cooke CR. Ortiz JR, et al. Crit Care Med. 2014 Nov;42(11):2325-32. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000545. Crit Care Med. 2014. PMID: 25148596 Free PMC article.
Influenza and other respiratory viruses are underdiagnosed in critically ill patients.
van Someren Gréve F, Schultz MJ, de Jong MD, Juffermans NP. van Someren Gréve F, et al. Crit Care Med. 2015 Apr;43(4):e117. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000849. Crit Care Med. 2015. PMID: 25768366 No abstract available.

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