PERSPECTIVE
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Influenza related hospital admissions in children: evidence about the burden keeps growing but the route to policy change remains uncertain
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Dr J Nguyen-Van-Tam
Consultant Epidemiologist, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, UK; jonathan.vantam@hpa.org.uk
Commentary on the paper by Beard et al (see page 20)
Keywords: hospitalisation; influenza
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Influenza has long been recognised as a disease which affects children; however, it is only fairly recently that the literature on this subject has switched focus from community settings towards the burden of hospitalisations. This issue carries an article by Frank Beard and colleagues which draws attention to the issue in Sydney, Australia and addresses the issue in a quantitative as well as a qualitative way.1 It follows on from, and replicates the methodologies employed by similar pivotal studies in the USA and Hong Kong.2,3
Most experienced commentators would agree that the foundations of our understanding of the burden of influenza in children, are based on data generated by a series of prospective community studies which took place in the 1960s and 1970s in the USA, all of which combined clinical surveillance with attempts at virus isolation and serological studies, to a greater or lesser extent. They are probably
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