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Influenza and other respiratory viruses: standardizing disease severity in surveillance and clinical trials

Rath , B. and Conrad, T. O. F. and Myles, P. and Alchikh, M. and Ma, X. and Hoppe, Ch. and Tief, F. and Obermeier, P. and Reiche, J. and Kisler, B. and Schweiger, B. (2017) Influenza and other respiratory viruses: standardizing disease severity in surveillance and clinical trials. Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy (IERZ), 15 (6). pp. 545-568.

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Official URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1478721...

Abstract

Introduction: Influenza-Like Illness is a leading cause of hospitalization in children. Disease burden due to influenza and other respiratory viral infections is reported on a population level, but clinical scores measuring individual changes in disease severity are urgently needed. Areas covered: We present a composite clinical score allowing individual patient data analyses of disease severity based on systematic literature review and WHO-criteria for uncomplicated and complicated disease. The 22-item ViVI Disease Severity Score showed a normal distribution in a pediatric cohort of 6073 children aged 0-18 years (mean age 3.13; S.D. 3.89; range: 0 to 18.79). Expert commentary: The ViVI Score was correlated with risk of antibiotic use, hospitalization and intensive care and was used to track children with influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus, human rhinovirus, and adenovirus infections and is fully compliant with regulatory data standards. The ViVI Disease Severity Score mobile application allows physicians to measure disease severity at the point-of care thereby taking clinical trials to the next level.

Item Type:Article
Subjects:Mathematical and Computer Sciences > Mathematics > Mathematics not elsewhere classified
Medicine and Dentistry > Clinical Medicine
Divisions:Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > Institute of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > Institute of Mathematics > BioComputing Group
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science > Institute of Mathematics > Comp. Proteomics Group
ID Code:2024
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Deposited On:14 Feb 2017 07:18
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