Older adults with COPD represent a significant portion of patients hospitalized with RSV-related illness, and can benefit substantially from preventive care.
Modeling excess risk using viral positivity data provides a comprehensive estimation of RSV hospitalization burden and associated costs compared with ICD codes.
Paired serology testing, standard-of-care swabs, and separate testing of nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs improved RSV diagnosis in hospitalized adults.
RSV represents an uncommon but significant cause of encephalitis/encephalopathy, according to findings published in Epidemiologia. Paolo Manzoni, MD, PhD, and colleagues reviewed and performed a meta analysis investigating the...