Potential for misclassification of community-acquired respiratory virus infections as healthcare-associated respiratory virus infections at a pediatric healthcare system

2026/04/10 by Zachary Most, Trish M. Perl, Michael Sebert · 1 voice
Medicine · #Respiratory viral infections research #Influenza Virus Research Studies #Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/ice.2026.10450

openalex publication_date 2026/04/10 · openalex created_date 2026/04/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Abstract

During a period of universal admission respiratory virus testing, many events (5%-14%) that might have been classified as healthcare-associated respiratory viral infections (HARVI) during routine operations were found to be community-acquired. These findings emphasize unique challenges for HARVI surveillance and the impact that testing strategies have on reported rates.

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