Children ages 2 to 17 who died after being admitted to intensive care with RSV almost always had serious underlying health problems, a new U.S. study shows. Among those who died, 93.8% had at least one complex chronic condition, according to research led by Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and published in JAMA Network Open, CIDRAP reported.
The data span January 2017 through June 2023 and come from electronic health records at more than 100 U.S. health systems. Children 2 and older made up nearly half of the RSV-related pediatric ICU admissions in the dataset and about two-thirds of the deaths.
