Urgent air transfers for acute respiratory infections among children from Northern Canada, 2005–2014

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Prendergast, Caitlin, Robinson, Joan, Caya, Chelsea, Perez Trejo, Maria E., Guan, Iline, Hébert-Murakami, Veronica, Marianayagam, Justina, Wong, Zing-Wae, Walker, Celia, Goldfarb, David M., Barrowman, Nick, Jetty, Radha, Embree, Joanne, Papenburg, Jesse
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2022
• Subjects: Research Article; Ari; Aris; Canada; Nunavik; Nunavut
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9333212/; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272154

BACKGROUND: The incidence of hospitalizations for acute respiratory infections (ARI) among young Indigenous children from Northern Canada is consistently high. ARIs requiring urgent air transfer can be life-threatening and costly. We aimed to describe their epidemiology, estimate age-specific incide...