Table 1. Demographic Characteristics of Patients Seeking Care for acute respiratory infection at the Hospital Civil de Guadalajara during the (H1N1) pandemic 2009—Mexico.
| Demographics N (%) | All initially triaged patients (N = 1840) | All hospitalized patients treated with oseltamivir (N = 233)‡ | All ambulatory patients treated with oseltamivir as outpatients (N = 286) ‡ | Patients discharged from triage without oseltamivir (N = 1324) | All patients treated with oseltamivir with seasonal influenza A cases (N = 42)∞ | All patients treated with oseltamivir with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 cases (N = 104) ∞ |
| Median age | 29 | 28 | 29 | 29 | 31 | 23* |
| Females | 1017 (55%) | 134 (58%) | 154 (54%) | 741 (55%) | 20 (48%) | 45 (43%) |
| Most Frequently Reported Occupations | ||||||
| Home makers | 376 (20%) | 62 (27%) | 32 (11%) | 287 (22%) | 8 (19%) | 12 (12%) |
| Students | 288 (16%) | 40 (17%) | 51 (18%) | 198 (15%) | 3 (7%) | 28 (28%) |
| Health care workers | 230 (13%) | 17 (7%) | 88 (31%) | 126 (10%) | 6 (14%) | 13 (12%) |
| Retail workers | 163 (9%) | 18 (8%) | 14 (5%) | 132 (10%) | 4 (10%) | 3 (3%) |
| Construction workers | 121 (7%) | 8 (3%) | 4 (1%) | 111 (8%) | 2 (5%) | 5 (4%) |
| Unemployed | 74 (4%) | 11 (5%) | 4 (1%) | 60 (5%) | 3 (7%) | 1 (1%) |
| Assessment of risk | ||||||
| High risk | 167 (9%) | 114 (49%) | 52 (18%) | 4 (0.3%) | 14 (33%) | 38 (37%) |
| Intermediate risk | 725 (39%) | 104 (45%) | 173 (60%) | 451 (34%) | 18 (43%) | 49 (47%) |
| Low risk | 945 (51%) | 15 (6%) | 59 (21%) | 880 (66%) | 10 (24%) | 14 (16%)¥ |
| Median ILI-score | 6 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 13 |
*Difference between seasonal influenza and pandemic (H1N1), 2009, p = 0.0007.
¥2% of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 missing risk assessment information.
‡Includes all hospitalized cases regardless of influenza RT-PCR test results.
∞Includes all hospitalized cases and ambulatory patients treated with oseltamivir who tested positive for influenza A.