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Meta-Analysis
. 2020 Jan 14;221(3):356-366.
doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiz152.

Neuraminidase Inhibitors and Hospital Length of Stay: A Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data to Determine Treatment Effectiveness Among Patients Hospitalized With Nonfatal 2009 Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) Virus Infection

Sudhir Venkatesan  1 Puja R Myles  1 Kirsty J Bolton  2 Stella G Muthuri  3 Tarig Al Khuwaitir  4 Ashish P Anovadiya  5 Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner  6 Tahar Bajjou  7 Matteo Bassetti  8 Bojana Beovic  9 Barbara Bertisch  10 Isabelle Bonmarin  11 Robert Booy  12 Victor H Borja-Aburto  13 Heinz Burgmann  14 Bin Cao  15 Jordi Carratala  16 Tserendorj Chinbayar  17 Catia Cilloniz  18 Justin T Denholm  19 Samuel R Dominguez  20 Pericles A D Duarte  21 Gal Dubnov-Raz  22 Sergio Fanella  23 Zhancheng Gao  24 Patrick Gérardin  25   26   27 Maddalena Giannella  28   29 Sophie Gubbels  30 Jethro Herberg  31 Anjarath Lorena Higuera Iglesias  32 Peter H Hoeger  33 Xiao Yun Hu  34 Quazi T Islam  35 Mirela F Jiménez  36 Gerben Keijzers  37 Hossein Khalili  38 Gabriela Kusznierz  39 Ilija Kuzman  40 Eduard Langenegger  41 Kamran B Lankarani  42 Yee-Sin Leo  43 Romina P Libster  44   45   46 Rita Linko  47 Faris Madanat  48 Efstratios Maltezos  49 Abdullah Mamun  50 Toshie Manabe  51 Gokhan Metan  52 Auksė Mickiene  53 Dragan Mikić  54 Kristin G I Mohn  55   56 Maria E Oliva  57 Mehpare Ozkan  58 Dhruv Parekh  59 Mical Paul  60 Barbara A Rath  61 Samir Refaey  62 Alejandro H Rodríguez  63 Bunyamin Sertogullarindan  64 Joanna Skręt-Magierło  65 Ayper Somer  66 Ewa Talarek  67 Julian W Tang  68   69   70 Kelvin To  71 Dat Tran  72 Timothy M Uyeki  6 Wendy Vaudry  73 Tjasa Vidmar  74 Paul Zarogoulidis  75 PRIDE Consortium InvestigatorsJonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam  1
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Meta-Analysis

Neuraminidase Inhibitors and Hospital Length of Stay: A Meta-analysis of Individual Participant Data to Determine Treatment Effectiveness Among Patients Hospitalized With Nonfatal 2009 Pandemic Influenza A(H1N1) Virus Infection

Sudhir Venkatesan et al. J Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Background: The effect of neuraminidase inhibitor (NAI) treatment on length of stay (LoS) in patients hospitalized with influenza is unclear.

Methods: We conducted a one-stage individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis exploring the association between NAI treatment and LoS in patients hospitalized with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) virus (A[H1N1]pdm09) infection. Using mixed-effects negative binomial regression and adjusting for the propensity to receive NAI, antibiotic, and corticosteroid treatment, we calculated incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Patients with a LoS of <1 day and those who died while hospitalized were excluded.

Results: We analyzed data on 18 309 patients from 70 clinical centers. After adjustment, NAI treatment initiated at hospitalization was associated with a 19% reduction in the LoS among patients with clinically suspected or laboratory-confirmed influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 infection (IRR, 0.81; 95% CI, .78-.85), compared with later or no initiation of NAI treatment. Similar statistically significant associations were seen in all clinical subgroups. NAI treatment (at any time), compared with no NAI treatment, and NAI treatment initiated <2 days after symptom onset, compared with later or no initiation of NAI treatment, showed mixed patterns of association with the LoS.

Conclusions: When patients hospitalized with influenza are treated with NAIs, treatment initiated on admission, regardless of time since symptom onset, is associated with a reduced LoS, compared with later or no initiation of treatment.

Keywords: IPD meta-analysis; Neuraminidase inhibitors; antivirals; length of stay; pandemic influenza.

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Identification of the study population. A(H1N1)pdm09, 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) virus; LoS, length of stay; NAI, neuraminidase inhibitor.

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