Table 2.
Estimated mean annual numbers and rates of severe acute respiratory illness and influenza‐associated severe acute respiratory illness hospitalizations, Rwanda, 2012‐2014 (Method 2)
| Age group (in years) | SARI hospitalizations | Influenza‐associated SARI hospitalizations | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number (95% CI) | Rate (95% CI)a | Number (95% CI) | Rate (95% CI)a | |
| All | 60 214 (48 539‐73 112) | 568.8 (414.9‐721.7) | 3648 (2663‐4633) | 34.2 (25.0‐43.4) |
| <1 | 19 178 (15 655‐22 435) | 6104.0 (5134‐7025) | 819 (655‐982) | 260.5 (208.4‐312.6) |
| 1‐4 | 28 745 (23 816‐33 367) | 2301.6 (1798.2‐2923.6) | 1867 (1438‐2297) | 149.5 (115.1‐183.9) |
| 5‐24 | 5039 (4021‐6827) | 100.7 (70.5‐130.9) | 472 (331‐614) | 9.4 (6.6‐12.3) |
| 25‐44 | 3001 (2498‐3627) | 113.1 (82.6‐143.7) | 200 (146‐253) | 7.6 (5.5‐9.6) |
| 45‐64 | 2736 (2023‐3071) | 245.8 (169.6‐322.0) | 161 (111‐211) | 14.5 (10.0‐19.0) |
| ≥65 | 1514 (1145‐1934) | 444.8 (315.8‐573.7) | 129 (92‐167) | 37.9 (26.9‐48.9) |
| Age group (in 2 categories) | ||||
| <5 | 47 923 (36 823‐56 923) | 3066.0 (2391.4‐3740.5) | 2686 (2095‐3277) | 171.8 (134.0‐209.6) |
| ≥5 | 12 291 (9974‐15 837) | 139.8 (99.3‐180.3) | 962 (683‐1242) | 10.6 (7.5‐13.6) |
| Province | ||||
| Kigali City | 6623 (4968‐8279) | 562.8 (422.1‐703.5) | 401 (301‐502) | 34.1 (25.6‐42.6) |
| Eastern | 11 441 (8123‐14 758) | 430.1 (305.4‐554.8) | 693 (492‐894) | 26.1 (18.5‐33.6) |
| Western | 15 054 (10 387‐19 720) | 604.2 (416.9‐791.5) | 912 (629‐1195) | 36.6 (25.3‐48.0) |
| Northern | 13 849 (10 802‐16 896) | 799.5 (623.6‐975.4) | 839 (655‐1024) | 48.4 (37.8‐59.1) |
| Southern | 13 247 (9803‐16 691) | 507.0 (375.2‐638.8) | 803 (594‐1011) | 30.7 (22.7‐38.5) |
SARI, severe acute respiratory illness; CI, confidence intervals.
a
Rates expressed per 100 000 population.