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Estimating rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalisations by using hospital episode statistics before an...

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Estimating rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalisations by using hospital episode statistics before and after the introduction of rotavirus vaccine in Australia

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Estimating rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalisations by using hospital episode statistics before and after the introduction of rotavirus vaccine in Australia

Publisher

Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd

Journal title

Vaccine, 2013-01, Vol.31 (6), p.967-972

Language

English

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Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd

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Contents

Highlights► Coding and testing patterns affect rotavirus burden and vaccine impact assessments. ► Only 36% of acute gastroenteritis hospitalisations had rotavirus stool testing. ► Rotavirus ICD code had low sensitivity (62%) to detect lab confirmed cases. ► Adjusted estimates were 6-fold higher than identified by rotavirus code only. ► Direct and a...

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Full title

Estimating rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalisations by using hospital episode statistics before and after the introduction of rotavirus vaccine in Australia

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1285103728

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1285103728

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ISSN

0264-410X

E-ISSN

1873-2518

DOI

10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.11.099

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