Patient characteristics
Patient characteristics are described in Table 1. Briefly, a total of 799 specimens from 799 unique patients were analyzed. The range of ages was 18 to 93 years of age, median was 50 years and 60.6% (484/799) were females. 67.3% (538/799) had more than one condition of high-risk for influenza complication criteria, with the median being 2 conditions. Comparisons of patient demographics and outcomes with no detection, influenza detection, or other respiratory pathogen detections are shown in Table 1. While results were not statistically significant, there was a trend for a greater number of influenza-positive patients being admitted to the ICU and having radiographic diagnosis of pneumonia, compared to those with no pathogen or other pathogen.