Pediatric Emergency Visits for Viral Respiratory Illness, 2019-2025

A retrospective cohort of 16,518 pediatric emergency department encounters for acute viral respiratory illness from 2019 through 2025. The dataset, authored by Rashed A. Hasan and shared under CC-BY-4.0, includes 2,384 preterm-born children and tracks outcomes like ICU admission and hospital length of stay. It was last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the association between preterm birth and ICU admission based on adjusted odds ratios.
• Analyzing the prevalence of specific viral pathogens like rhinovirus/enterovirus and RSV in a clinical cohort.
• Studying the relationship between viral coinfection and illness severity in pediatric patients.
• Investigating the requirement for respiratory support modalities such as HFNC and mechanical ventilation.

Strengths

• Includes 16,518 patient encounters with molecularly-confirmed viral etiology.
• Covers a multi-year period from 2019 to 2025.
• Provides specific outcome metrics like adjusted odds ratios for PICU admission (aOR 1.57) and length of stay increase (17%).
• Reports detailed pathogen detection counts, such as 6,432 encounters with rhinovirus/enterovirus.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying data file is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 327.1 KB file size suggests a limited scope, likely containing summary statistics rather than raw patient-level data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Rashed A. Hasan.

Collection Method

Retrospective cohort study of pediatric ED encounters.

Time Range

January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 05:26:34; freshness should be verified.