The Effect of Influenza on Hospitalizations, Outpatient Visits, and Courses of Antibiotics in Children

Abstract

Healthy children younger than one year of age are hospitalized for illness attributable to influenza at rates similar to those for adults at high risk for influenza. The rate of hospitalization decreases markedly with age. Influenza accounts for a substantial number of outpatient visits and courses of antibiotics in children of all ages.