Children less than 2 with Down syndrome and suffering from respiratory syncytial virus have a longer and more costly hospitalization

In regard to the article by Mitra et al, we would like to provide additional data.1 We used the 2016 Kids' Inpatient Database developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which captures admission data from more than 2000 hospitals in the United States.2 We separated further all cases to limit the admission age to less than 2 years. The International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification codes for respiratory syncytial virus and Down syndrome were also applied.

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