Table 1.
Emergency department (ED) visits and disease notifications in children aged under 10 years in New South Wales (NSW), Australia1
|
Age group |
Cough ED visits |
Pertussis notifications |
Influenza notifications |
Bronchiolitis ED visits |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
|
<1 year |
6,787 |
31.2 |
1,376 |
11.2 |
736 |
17.0 |
25,975 |
80.9 |
|
1-4 years |
10,562 |
48.6 |
4,214 |
34.2 |
1,862 |
43.0 |
6,066 |
18.9 |
|
5-9 years |
4,386 |
20.2 |
6,721 |
54.6 |
1,734 |
40.0 |
79 |
0.2 |
| Total | 21,735 | 100.0 | 12,311 | 100.0 | 4,332 | 100.0 | 32,120 | 100.0 |
1. Data sources: ED data were obtained from the NSW Emergency Department Data Collection. Disease notifications data were obtained from the NSW Notifiable Conditions Information Management System. Study period: 1 January 2007–31 December 2010.