ICD-9 codes for identifying influenza hospitalizations in children [1]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1603-1604

  Keren, Ron ^a   Wheeler, Anna ^a   Coffin, Susan E ^a   Zaoutis, Theoklis ^a   Hodinka, Richard ^a   Heydon, Kateri ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750019046     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1210.051525     Document Type: Letter

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