Clinical decision-making and documentation gaps associated with influenza antiviral treatment in hospitalized children
Christina B Felsen, Erin Licherdell, Maria A Gaitan, Ghinwa Dumyati, Brenda Tesini · 2026
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Christina B Felsen and colleagues examine why many hospitalized children with influenza never receive the antiviral drugs that guidelines recommend for all of them. Their cohort covers children up to 17 years old in seven western New York counties, treated at two hospitals from October 2023 to April 2024. Every child had lab-confirmed flu during the stay or the two weeks before it.
Of 131 children in the cohort, 55 received an antiviral, some 42 percent of the group in total, and nearly all of those got the standard oral drug. That share has fallen from 78 percent in the 2017-2018 season to 56 percent in the season studied, per the figures the authors cite. Records also left many treatment choices unexplained in the chart. The gaps point to fixes in ordering habits and in how choices get written down.
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| CREATOR | Christina B Felsen, Erin Licherdell, Maria A Gaitan, Ghinwa Dumyati, Brenda Tesini |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19989 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |