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. 2022 Jan 27;11(1):5-8.
doi: 10.1093/jpids/piab096.

Clinical Influenza Testing Practices in Hospitalized Children at United States Medical Centers, 2015-2018

Mark W Tenforde  1 , Angela P Campbell  1 , Marian G Michaels  2 , Christopher J Harrison  3 , Eileen J Klein  4 , Janet A Englund  4 , Rangaraj Selvarangan  3 , Natasha B Halasa  5 , Laura S Stewart  5 , Geoffrey A Weinberg  6 , John V Williams  2 , Peter G Szilagyi  7 , Mary A Staat  8 , Julie A Boom  9   10 , Leila C Sahni  9   10 , Monica N Singer  11 , Parvin H Azimi  11 , Richard K Zimmerman  12 , Monica M McNeal  13 , H Keipp Talbot  5 , Arnold S Monto  14 , Emily T Martin  14 , Manjusha Gaglani  15 , Fernanda P Silveira  12 , Donald B Middleton  12 , Jill M Ferdinands  1 , Melissa A Rolfes  1
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Clinical Influenza Testing Practices in Hospitalized Children at United States Medical Centers, 2015-2018

Mark W Tenforde et al. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. .

Abstract

At nine US hospitals that enrolled children hospitalized with acute respiratory illness (ARI) during 2015-2016 through 2017-2018 influenza seasons, 50% of children with ARI received clinician-initiated testing for influenza and 35% of cases went undiagnosed due to lack of clinician-initiated testing. Marked heterogeneity in testing practice was observed across sites.

Keywords: RT-PCR; antigen test; hospitalized; influenza; testing.

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Figure 1.
Percentage of children with acute respiratory illness (ARI) receiving influenza clinician-initiated testing by influenza season and hospital in children* enrolled in the New Vaccine Surveillance Network—the United States, 2015-2018. *Sites with <50 patients enrolled with ARI during a given season are not shown in the figure. Lines are used to connect individual hospital sites values by season. Some hospitals did not participate during all seasons or may have had <50 patients included with ARI during the season.
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