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.