Seasonal influenza, its complications and related healthcare resource utilization among people 60 years and older: A descriptive retrospective study in Japan

• Yuriko Hagiwara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuriko Hagiwara, Kazumasa Harada

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Evidence Generation, Medical Affairs, Sanofi, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3754-8278

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• Kazumasa Harada ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuriko Hagiwara, Kazumasa Harada

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Joshua Nealon ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jnealon@hku.hk

  Affiliations Medical Evidence Generation, Medical Affairs, Sanofi, Lyon, France, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1538-4636

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• Yasuyuki Okumura,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Research and Analytics Department, Real World Data, Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan, The Initiative for Clinical Epidemiological Research, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takeshi Kimura,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Research and Analytics Department, Real World Data, Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan

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• Sandra S. Chaves

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Modelling, Epidemiology and Data Science, Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France, Foundation for Influenza Epidemiology, Fondation de France, Paris, France

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