Clinical Influenza Testing Practices in Hospitalized Children at United States Medical Centers, 2015-2018

• Published in: Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 5 - 8
• Main Authors: Tenforde, Mark W, Campbell, Angela P, Michaels, Marian G, Harrison, Christopher J, Klein, Eileen J, Englund, Janet A, Selvarangan, Rangaraj, Halasa, Natasha B, Stewart, Laura S, Weinberg, Geoffrey A, Williams, John V, Szilagyi, Peter G, Staat, Mary A, Boom, Julie A, Sahni, Leila C, Singer, Monica N, Azimi, Parvin H, Zimmerman, Richard K, McNeal, Monica M, Talbot, H Keipp, Monto, Arnold S, Martin, Emily T, Gaglani, Manjusha, Silveira, Fernanda P, Middleton, Donald B, Ferdinands, Jill M, Rolfes, Melissa A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: US Oxford University Press 27-01-2022
• Subjects: Child; Child, Hospitalized; Hospitals; Humans; Infant; Influenza, Human - diagnosis; Original; Respiratory Tract Infections; Seasons; United States; United States; hospitalized; influenza; antigen test; RT-PCR; testing
• ISSN: 2048-7207; 2048-7193; 2048-7207
• DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piab096

Abstract
At nine US hospitals that enrolled children hospitalized with acute respiratory illness (ARI) during 2015-2016 through 2017-2018 influenza seasons, 50% of children with ARI received clinician-initiated testing for influenza and 35% of cases went undiagnosed due to lack of clinician-initiated testing. Marked heterogeneity in testing practice was observed across sites.