About One In 20 Adults With Outpatient RSV Infections Are Hospitalized Within 28 Days, Study Suggests

MedPage Today (11/19, DeBenedette) reports, “Among adults with outpatient respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections across six RSV seasons, roughly one in 20 were hospitalized within 28 days, according to a large cohort study that used data from three health record databases.” Researchers found that “in the cohort of over 67,000 patients with outpatient medically attended RSV infections, hospitalization rates were 4.5% to 6.2%, and 6.5% to 8.5% in a high-risk subgroup, across the three databases.” The findings were published in JAMA Network Open.