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Table 3 Minimum and maximum weekly incidence of respiratory infections as a proportion of internal medicine admissions and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, respectively, according to case definition (CD), hospital-based surveillance of acute respiratory infections, Berlin, 2009/10

From: Lessons from a one-year hospital-based surveillance of acute respiratory infections in Berlin- comparing case definitions to monitor influenza

Case definition

Maximum

Week

Minimum

Week

CD1 among internal medicine admissions

8.3%

50/2009

2.0%

27/2010

CD1b among internal medicine admissions

5.6%

41/2010

1.4%

29/2010

CD4 among internal medicine admissions

3.2%

50/2009

0.2%

25/2010

CD1 cases among ICU-admissions

10.0%

51/2009

0%

repeatedly

  1. See text and Figure 1 for explanation of CD1, 1b and 4