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Table 2 Trend of RSV-related hospitalizations by year and age-classes; OPBG, January 2018– December 2022

From: Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in a large pediatric hospital in Central Italy and development of a forecasting model to predict the seasonal peak

 

2018

N (%)

2019

N (%)

2020

N (%)

2021

N (%)

2022

N (%)

Total

N (%)

P-value*

Age classes

       

< 1

408

(86.8)

449

(85.4)

165

(85.5)

280

(82.6)

265

(72.2)

1,567

(82.7)

< 0.001

1–4

53

(11.3)

65

(12.4)

26

(13.5)

49

(14.4)

81

(22.1)

274

(14.5)

< 0.001

5–9

6

(1.3)

10

(1.9)

2

(1.0)

7

(2.1)

13

(3.5)

38

(2.0)

0.04

≥ 10

3

(0.6)

2

(0.4)

0

(0.0)

3

(0.9)

8

(2.2)

16

(0.8)

0.01

Total

470

(100.0)

526

(100.0)

193

(100.0)

339

(100.0)

367

(100.0)

1,895

(100.0)

 
  1. *Cochrane Armitage test for trend