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AAP Grand Rounds 19:21-22 (2008)
© 2008 American Academy of Pediatrics

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Flu Shots for Hospitalized Tots: An Opportunity to Prevent Subsequent Hospitalization

Source: Zerr DM, Englund JA, Robertson AS, et al. Hospital-based influenza vaccination of children: an opportunity to prevent subsequent hospitalization. Pediatrics. 2008;121(2):in press; doi:10.1542/peds.2007–2812

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PICO

Question: Would vaccination of hospitalized children have the potential to reduce subsequent hospitalization for influenza-related illness?

Question type: Intervention

Study Design: Retrospective review of dataset

 

Investigators from Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington conducted a study to determine whether there is an opportunity for hospital-based influenza vaccination to prevent a substantial number of subsequent hospitalizations for influenza-related illness in pediatric patients.

Using the Pediatric Health Information System database of the Child Health Corporation, a collaboration of 42 freestanding children’s hospitals, investigators identified children ≤18 years of age discharged from the hospital between November 1 and April 30 with International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Mobeen H. Rathore, MD, FAAP
Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Florida College of Medicine and Wolfson Children’s Hospital, Jacksonville, FL