Hospitalizations for Endemic Mycoses: A Population-Based National Study

We performed a retrospective cohort study, using the 2002 Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a national database of hospital inpatient stays, to describe the incidence and epidemiology of endemic mycoses requiring hospitalization. An estimated 332 pediatric and 6003 adult patients with endemic mycoses req...

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Published in:Clinical infectious diseases 2006-03, Vol.42 (6), p.822-825
Main Authors: Chu, Jaclyn H., Feudtner, Chris, Heydon, Kateri, Walsh, Thomas J., Zaoutis, Theoklis E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Age
Age Factors
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Blastomycosis
Blastomycosis - epidemiology
Blastomycosis - mortality
Bone marrow
Brief Reports
Child
Child health services
Children & youth
Coccidioidomycosis
Coccidioidomycosis - epidemiology
Coccidioidomycosis - mortality
Cohort Studies
Endemic Diseases - statistics & numerical data
Female
Fungal infections
Health economics
Histoplasmosis
Histoplasmosis - epidemiology
Histoplasmosis - mortality
Hospitalization
Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infections
Infectious diseases
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mortality
Mycoses - epidemiology
Mycoses - mortality
Retrospective Studies
Treatment Outcome
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:We performed a retrospective cohort study, using the 2002 Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a national database of hospital inpatient stays, to describe the incidence and epidemiology of endemic mycoses requiring hospitalization. An estimated 332 pediatric and 6003 adult patients with endemic mycoses required hospitalization (4.6 and 28.7 cases per 1 million children and adults, respectively). Crude mortality rates were 5% and 7% among children and adults, respectively.
ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1086/500405