TABLE 2. Distribution of hospital facilities and wards that cared for pregnant or postpartum* patients with acute respiratory or febrile illness and receipt of antiviral treatment, by hospital grade and ward — Suzhou, China, 2018–2023.
| Hospital ward | Institution grade,† no. (%)§ |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total |
Grade I |
Grade II |
Grade III |
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| Total admitted | Received antiviral treatment | Total admitted | Received antiviral treatment | Total admitted | Received antiviral treatment | Total admitted | Received antiviral treatment | |
|
ARFI patients
| ||||||||
|
Total
|
3,133 (100)
¶
|
331 (10.6)
|
24 (100)
|
0 (—)
|
429 (100)
|
25 (5.8)
|
2,680 (100)
|
306 (11.4)
|
| Obstetrics |
2,588 (82.6)
|
258 (10.0)
|
13 (54.2)
|
0 (—) |
348 (81.1)
|
20 (5.7) |
2,227 (83.1)
|
238 (10.7) |
| Respiratory medicine |
299 (9.5)
|
57 (19.1)
|
1 (4.2)
|
0 (—) |
23 (5.4)
|
4 (17.4) |
275 (10.3)
|
53 (19.3) |
| Gynecology |
173 (5.5)
|
7 (4.0)
|
10 (41.7)
|
0 (—) |
54 (12.6)
|
1 (1.9) |
109 (4.1)
|
6 (5.5) |
| Others |
73 (2.3)
|
9 (12.3)
|
0 (—)
|
0 (—) |
4 (0.9)
|
0 (—) |
69 (2.6)
|
9 (13.0) |
|
Influenza ARFI patients
| ||||||||
|
Total
|
495 (100)**
|
155 (31.3)
|
1 (100)
|
0 (—)
|
71 (100)
|
14 (19.7)
|
423 (100)
|
141 (33.3)
|
| Obstetrics |
423 (85.5)
|
125 (29.6)
|
0 (—)
|
0 (—) |
62 (87.3)
|
10 (16.1) |
361 (85.3)
|
115 (31.9) |
| Respiratory medicine |
37 (7.5)
|
20 (54.1)
|
0 (—)
|
0 (—) |
4 (5.6)
|
3 (75.0) |
33 (7.8)
|
17 (51.5) |
| Gynecology |
26 (5.3)
|
6 (23.1)
|
1 (100)
|
0 (—) |
5 (7.0)
|
1 (20.0) |
20 (4.7)
|
5 (25.0) |
| Others | 9 (1.8) | 4 (44.4) | 0 (—) | 0 (—) | 0 (—) | 0 (—) | 9 (2.1) | 4 (44.4) |
Abbreviations: ARFI = acute respiratory or febrile illness; influenza ARFI = laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated acute respiratory or febrile illness.
* <2 weeks postpartum.
† Hospitals in China are classified into three grades. The lowest is the grade I hospital, which includes primary hospitals and health centers that directly provide prevention, medical care, and rehabilitation services to communities with a certain population. A grade II hospital is a regional hospital that provides comprehensive medical and health services to multiple communities and undertakes certain teaching and research tasks. The highest rank is the grade III hospital, which is a large-scale general hospital with more than 500 beds that integrates medical service, education, and research functions.
§ Percentages in Total admitted columns are column percentages; percentages in Received antiviral treatment columns are percentages of the total number of patients hospitalized in each grade and ward type (e.g., among 348 patients hospitalized in grade II obstetrics wards, 20 (5.7%) received antiviral treatment).
¶ Number of patients (i.e., 94% of 3,329) who had a nasopharyngeal swab collected and for whom information on hospitalization ward was available.
** The 495 influenza ARFI patients were a 15.8% subset of the 3,133 ARFI patients.