Characteristics | All patients (n = 9924), no. (%) | Hospital settings | ||
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Outpatient/ED, (n = 6437), no. (%) | Hospitalized, (n = 3487), no. (%) | P-value | ||
Male | 5362 (54.0) | 3329 (51.7) | 2033 (58.3) | < 0.001 |
Age, median years (IQR) | 25.5 (6.6–44.3) | 28.2 (15.6–42.1) | 8.8 (3.0–52.0) | < 0.001* |
Age in years | < 0.001 | |||
0–1 | 1014 (10.2) | 272 (4.2) | 742 (21.3) | |
2–4 | 983 (9.9) | 519 (8.1) | 464 (13.3) | |
5–14 | 1610 (16.2) | 760 (11.8) | 850 (24.4) | |
15–34 | 3070 (30.9) | 2746 (42.7) | 324 (9.3) | |
35–64 | 2240 (22.6) | 1735 (27.0) | 505 (14.5) | |
≥ 65 | 1007 (10.1) | 405 (6.3) | 602 (17.3) | |
Surveillance year | < 0.001 | |||
2012 | 2517 (25.4) | 1804 (28.0) | 713 (20.4) | |
2013 | 2288 (23.1) | 1201 (18.7) | 1087 (31.2) | |
2014 | 3198 (32.2) | 2100 (32.6) | 1098 (31.5) | |
2015 | 1921 (19.4) | 1332 (20.7) | 589 (16.9) | |
Season of illness onset a | < 0.001 | |||
winter | 2810 (28.3) | 1510 (23.5) | 712 (20.4) | |
spring | 2462 (24.8) | 1789 (27.8) | 1021 (29.3) | |
summer | 2222 (22.4) | 1528 (23.7) | 934 (26.8) | |
autumn | 2430 (24.5) | 1610 (25.0) | 820 (23.5) | |
Clinical diagnosis | < 0.001 | |||
URTIs b | 5230 (52.7) | 5069 (78.7) | 161 (4.6) | |
LRTIs c | 4694 (47.3) | 1368 (21.3) | 3326 (95.4) | |
Pneumonia d | 4208 (42.4) | 1134 (17.6) | 3074 (88.2) | |
Other LRTIs | 486 (4.9) | 234 (3.6) | 252 (7.2) |