Estimation of Respiratory Syncytial Virus-attributable hospitalizations among older adults in Japan between 2015 and 2018: An administrative health claims database analysis

• Masafumi Seki,

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

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka, Japan

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• Yasuhiro Kobayashi,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pfizer Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3587-6611

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• Estelle Méroc,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation P95 Clinical and Epidemiology Services, Leuven, Belgium

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• Takahiro Kitano,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pfizer Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan

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• Aleksandra Polkowska-Kramek,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation P95 Clinical and Epidemiology Services, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0148-7183

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• Asuka Yoshida,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pfizer Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan

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• Shuhei Ito,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pfizer Japan Inc., Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0289-7766

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• Caihua Liang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: caihua.liang@pfizer.com

  Affiliation Pfizer Inc., New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8375-631X

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• Robin Bruyndonckx,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation P95 Clinical and Epidemiology Services, Leuven, Belgium

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• Solomon Molalign Moges,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation P95 Clinical and Epidemiology Services, Leuven, Belgium

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• Eduardo Conde-Sousa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation P95 Clinical and Epidemiology Services, Leuven, Belgium

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• Charles Nuttens,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pfizer Inc., Paris, France

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• Bradford D. Gessner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pfizer Inc., New York, United States of America

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• Elizabeth Begier

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pfizer Inc., Dublin, Ireland

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