The burden of community-managed acute respiratory infections in the first 2-years of life

• Published in: Pediatric pulmonology Vol. 51; no. 12; pp. 1336 - 1346
• Main Authors: Sarna, Mohinder, Ware, Robert S., Sloots, Theo P., Nissen, Michael D., Grimwood, Keith, Lambert, Stephen B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Ambulatory Care; Australia - epidemiology; Child, Preschool; children; Cohort Studies; Cough - epidemiology; Cough - therapy; Dyspnea - epidemiology; Dyspnea - therapy; Female; Humans; Incidence; Infant; Longitudinal Studies; Male; management; Morbidity; Otitis Media - epidemiology; Otitis Media - therapy; Pneumonia - epidemiology; Pneumonia - therapy; Primary Health Care; Respiratory Sounds; respiratory symptoms; respiratory tract infections; Respiratory Tract Infections - epidemiology; Respiratory Tract Infections - therapy; respiratory tract infections; respiratory symptoms; children; management

Summary Background Contemporary information on acute respiratory infections (ARIs) in children is based on hospital cohorts, primary healthcare presentations, and high‐risk birth cohort studies. We describe the burden and determinants of symptomatic episodes of ARIs in unselected healthy infants in...