Volume 13, Number 6—June 2007
Research
Incidence and Cost of Rotavirus Hospitalizations in Denmark
Thea Kølsen Fischer*
, Nete Munk Nielsen*, Jan Wohlfahrt*, and Anders Pærregaard†
, Nete Munk Nielsen*, Jan Wohlfahrt*, and Anders Pærregaard†Table
Diarrhea-associated hospitalizations, by cause, for children <5 years of age, Denmark, 1994–2004*
| Diagnostic category | ICD-10 code | Hospitalizations |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total no. (%) | Annual average | Incidence/ 1,000 child-years | % 0–23 mo. of age | % Boys | ||
| Etiology unspecified | ||||||
| Presumed infectious | A09 | 22,475 (69.6) | 2,043 | 6.7 | 67.8 | 55.9 |
| Presumed noninfectious | A085 | 15 (0.1) | – | – | 66.7 | 46.7 |
| Etiology specified | ||||||
| Viral, nonspecified | A084, A083 | 6,916 (21.4) | 628 | 1.9 | 67.8 | 54.5 |
| Norwalk virus and adenovirus | A081, A082 | 62 (0.2) | 6 | – | 77.4 | 58.1 |
| Rotavirus | A080 | 1,309 (4.1) | 119 | 0.36 | 79.1 | 56.4 |
| Bacterial | A00-A05 | 1,415 (4.4) | 129 | 0.39 | 63.5 | 55.9 |
| Parasitic | A06, A07 | 88 (0.3) | 8 | – | 44.3 | 56.8 |
| Total | 32,280 (100) | 2,935 | 8.9 | 67.8 | 55.6 | |
*ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases, version 10; –, too few records to analyze.
