Development and validation of clinical prediction models to distinguish influenza from other viruses causing acute respiratory infections in children and adults

• Danielle Vuichard-Gysin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department for Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Muensterlingen, Thurgau Hospital Group, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1115-4035

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• Dominik Mertz,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department for Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Diseases Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Eleanor Pullenayegum,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department for Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Pardeep Singh,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Marek Smieja,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department for Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Diseases Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Mark Loeb

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: loebm@mcmaster.ca

  Current address: McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning, Hamilton, Ontario

  Affiliations Department for Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Diseases Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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