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Determinants of fatal outcome in patients admitted to intensive care units with...
Penttinen, Pasi; Snacken, René; Lyytikäinen, Outi; Ikonen, Niina; Melillo, Tanya; Melillo, Jackie M.; Staroňová, Edita; Mikas, JánBackground: Morbidity, severity, and mortality associated with annual influenza epidemics are of public health concern. We analyzed surveillance data on hospitalized laboratory-confirmed influenza cases admitted to intensive care units to identify common determinants for fatal outcome and inform and target public health prevention strategies, including risk communication. Methods: We performed a descriptive ana...
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections wit...
Cassini, Alessandro; Högberg, Liselotte Diaz; Plachouras, Diamantis; Quattrocchi, Annalisa; Hoxha, Ana; Simonsen, Gunnar Skov; Colomb-Cotinat, MélanieBackground: Infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria are threatening modern health care. However, estimating their incidence, complications, and attributable mortality is challenging. We aimed to estimate the burden of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria of public health concern in countries of the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) in 2015, measured in number of cases, attributable death...