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Author: Domínguez, Àngela; Soldevila, Núria; Torner, Núria; Martínez, Ana; Godoy, Pere; Rius, Cristina; Jané, Mireia
Title: Usefulness of Clinical Definitions of Influenza for Public Health Surveillance Purposes
  • Document date: 2020_1_14
  • ID: 0njm2cgh_35
    Snippet: We found that sore throat was not a predictor of confirmed influenza in all weeks or in epidemic weeks, and was a discrete predictor only in the <5 years age group (aDOR 1.33; 95% CI 1.09-1.63). Likewise, it was not a significant predictor of confirmed influenza in all age groups in the United States study by Shah et al. [12] in 2009-2011, which found that the most discriminating clinical manifestations, with an aDOR >3, were cough and fever. Our.....
    Document: We found that sore throat was not a predictor of confirmed influenza in all weeks or in epidemic weeks, and was a discrete predictor only in the <5 years age group (aDOR 1.33; 95% CI 1.09-1.63). Likewise, it was not a significant predictor of confirmed influenza in all age groups in the United States study by Shah et al. [12] in 2009-2011, which found that the most discriminating clinical manifestations, with an aDOR >3, were cough and fever. Our results support the removal of sore throat from the clinical case definition in order to improve performance, as suggested by other authors [5] .

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