Factors Associated with Death from Severe Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Rio de Janeiro, 2009

2009 data from 1,191 confirmed severe cases of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 among residents of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The dataset includes demographic, clinical, and outcome variables used to analyze factors associated with death. It was created by Gustavo Machado Felinto from secondary data analysis.

Use Cases

• Predicting mortality risk based on demographic and clinical factors like education level and comorbidities.
• Identifying high-risk patient profiles for severe influenza based on radiological patterns.
• Training logistic regression models on factors such as vaccination status and hospitalization.

Strengths

• Includes 1,191 confirmed severe influenza cases from a defined population.
• Analysis identifies specific factors like low education level and interstitial infiltrate associated with higher mortality.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single city and year, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Gustavo Machado Felinto

Collection Method

Analysis of secondary data from confirmed cases with clinical criteria for Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI).

Time Range

2009

Geography

City of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil