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Table 3 SARI admissions to adult ICU and adult ILI in sentinel GP surveillance during influenza epidemics

From: Estimating severity of influenza epidemics from severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) in intensive care units

Season

Influenza epidemic (week numbers)b

Epidemic duration (weeks)

Observed SARI incidence

Standardized SARIc incidenced

Observed ILIa incidenced

Standardized ILI incidencee

Ratio of SARIc vs ILIe

Peak SARIf

 

Weeknr

Incidencecd

Influenza strains

2007/2008

50–52 and 5–9

8

335

929

347

344

2.70

8

153

A(H1N1) dominance followed by type B dominance

2008/2009

2–6

5

379

731

476

511

1.43

2

177

A(H3) dominance

2009/2010

41–48

8

538

804

677

611

1.32

45

123

A(H1N1)pdm09

2010/2011

1–7

7

652

890

441

413

2.15

1

162

A(H1N1)pdm09 dominance followed by type B dominance

2011/2012

NA

0

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA

A(H3N2) dominance

2012/2013

1–16

16

1731

1995

1328

1409

1.42

6

188

Mixed A(H1N1)pdm09 and A(H3N2) dominance followed by B dominance.

2013/2014

5–8 and 10–11

6

500

544

311

329

1.65

8

101

Mixed dominance with slightly more A(H3N2) than A(H1N1)pdm09, low circulation of influenza B.

2014/2015

49–13 and 15–17

20

2386

2368

1701

1764

1.34

7

153

A(H3N2) dominance followed by influenza B

2015/2016

53–11

12

1693

1693

1103

1103

1.53

6

176

A(H1N1)pdm09 dominance followed by B dominance

  1. SARI Severe acute respiratory infections, GP general practitioner, ILI influenza-like illness, NA Not applicable as there was no retrospectively registered influenza epidemic
  2. aILI in the age group of 15 years and older
  3. b0 weeks crossed the ILI epidemic threshold in season 2011/2012
  4. cStandardized to the total number of medical ICU admissions in season 2015/2016 (with near 100% national ICU coverage)
  5. dIncidence per 10,000 inhabitants
  6. eStandardized to the sentinel population size in season 2015/2016
  7. fThe highest registered weekly SARI incidence during an influenza epidemic