Journal article
Epidemiology of Infection-Related Hospitalisations in High-Income Countries: An International Data Linkage Study
Jessica Eden Miller, Natasha Nassar, Justin Zeltzer, Raphael Goldacre, Marian Knight, Rachael Wood, Carole Morris, Sian Nowell, Siri E Håberg, Maria Christine Magnus, Hannah Moore, Parveen Fathima, Kim Carter, Nicholas De Klerk, Tobias Strunk, Jiong Li, Lars Henning Pedersen, David Burgner
International Journal of Population Data Science | Swansea University | Published : 2020
Abstract
IntroductionChildhood infection is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, however, the epidemiology of infection-related hospitalisations (IRH) across high-income countries is not well described. Population-level data are valuable resources for studying the epidemiology of severe infections. Objectives and ApproachWe used data from our multi-country total population-based cohort study to describe the patterns of IRH across six populations in five countries. Our cohort study contains birth and hospitalisation data on all singleton live births from 1996-2015 from Australia (New South Wales and Western Australia), Denmark, Norway, Scotland, and England. Children were classified a..
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