Predictors of influenza among older adults in the emergency department

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Lam, Po Po ^a,b   Coleman, Brenda L ^a,b   Green, Karen ^b,c   Powis, Jeff ^d   Richardson, David ^e   Katz, Kevin ^f   Borgundvaag, Bjug ^b   Smith Gorvie, Telisha ^g   Kwong, Jeffrey C ^h   Bondy, Susan J ^a   McGeer, Allison ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network   (Canada)

^d TORONTO EAST GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e William Osler Health System   (Canada)

^f NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^h INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical symptoms; Elderly; Influenza; Older adults

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA A (H3N2); INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE SMEAR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SORE THROAT; TEMPERATURE; THROAT CULTURE; VERY ELDERLY; WHEEZING; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H3N2); MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PATHOGENICITY; PHARYNGITIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COUGH; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PHARYNGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84992630715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-016-1966-4     Document Type: Article

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