%0 Journal Article
%T Estudio de la epidemia de gripe A nH1N1 de 2009-2010: S¨ªntomas gu¨ªa en Atenci¨®n Primaria. Comparaci¨®n cl¨ªnica con los casos hospitalarios
%A Mart¨ªn Ruiz
%A N.
%A Galbe S¨¢nchez-Ventura
%A J.
%A Garc¨ªa S¨¢nchez
%A N.
%A Ruiz Andr¨¦s
%A M.¨¢.
%J Pediatr¨ªa Atenci¨®n Primaria
%D 2011
%I Asociaci¨®n Espa?ola de Pediatr¨ªa de Atenci¨®n Primaria (AEPap)
%R 10.4321/S1139-76322011000600002
%X objectives: to analyze the prediction's capacity of clinical symptoms to diagnose nh1n1 influenza in outpatients who were chosen by aragon's sentinel surveillance network. to compare outpatients with hospitalized cases during influenza a virus pandemic (2009-2010). methods: retrospective study of a randomized group of patients with symptoms of influenza who had laboratory-confirmation by pcr-rt and of all patients admitted to the reference hospital of aragon. comparison of epidemiological and clinical characteristics in outpatients and between outpatients and hospital cases. results: there were no clinical differences between the laboratory-confirmed by pcr-rt cases and the other outpatients, so it was not possible to find defining symptoms of infection. hospitalized patients were younger, with higher percentage of underlying disease and comorbidity. conclusions: the epidemic of influenza a behaved as a benign disease, symptoms were similar to seasonal influenza. the clinical finding of having influenza symptoms in a high incidence week (weeks 43-48) was moderately predictive of influenza a infection.
%K influenza a virus
%K nh1n1 subtype
%K outpatients
%K primary care
%K signs and symptoms
%K complications
%K epidemiology
%K sentinel surveillance.
%U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1139-76322011000600002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en