作者
Christl A Donnelly, Azra C Ghani, Gabriel M Leung, Anthony J Hedley, Christophe Fraser, Steven Riley, Laith J Abu-Raddad, Lai-Ming Ho, Thuan-Quoc Thach, Patsy Chau, King-Pan Chan, Tai-Hing Lam, Lai-Yin Tse, Thomas Tsang, Shao-Haei Liu, James HB Kong, Edith MC Lau, Neil M Ferguson, Roy M Anderson
发表日期
2003/5/24
期刊
The lancet
卷号
361
期号
9371
页码范围
1761-1766
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Health authorities worldwide, especially in the Asia Pacific region, are seeking effective public-health interventions in the continuing epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). We assessed the epidemiology of SARS in Hong Kong.
Methods
We included 1425 cases reported up to April 28, 2003. An integrated database was constructed from several sources containing information on epidemiological, demographic, and clinical variables. We estimated the key epidemiological distributions: infection to onset, onset to admission, admission to death, and admission to discharge. We measured associations between the estimated case fatality rate and patients'age and the time from onset to admission.
Findings
After the initial phase of exponential growth, the rate of confirmed cases fell to less than 20 per day by April 28. Public-health interventions included encouragement to report to hospital …
引用总数
学术搜索中的文章
CA Donnelly, AC Ghani, GM Leung, AJ Hedley… - The lancet, 2003