1759. Incidence of Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits for Herpes Zoster in Immunocompromised and Immunocompetent Adults in Ontario, Canada, 2002–2016
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Abstract
Abstract Background Adults with immunocompromising conditions are at increased risk of herpes zoster (HZ) infection and related complications. We aimed to assess the incidence of HZ seen in hospital or emergency department in immunocompromised populations and compare it to that of immunocompetent populations. Methods Using healthcare administrative data, we calculated incidence rates (IR) of HZ in Ontario, Canada between April 1, 2002 and August 31, 2016 in adults ≥18 years categorized as immunocompromised or immunocompetent. We repeated these analyses by type of immunocompromising condition and provided incidence rate ratios (IRR) comparing to immunocompetent adults. We also calculated IRs and IRRs of HZ complications by immunocompromised status. Results There were 120,654 incident cases of HZ seen in hospital or emergency department during the study period. Immunocompromised adults accounted for 13% of these cases despite representing only 3% of the population. The risk of HZ was higher for immunocompromised adults compared with immunocompetent (IRR = 2.8, 95% CI 2.8–2.9) and ranged across type of immunocompromising condition (from 2.4 [95% CI 2.3–2.5] in those with a solid tumor malignancy to 11.0 [95% CI 10.0–12.0] in those who had undergone a hematopoietic stem cell transplant). The risk of any HZ complication was also higher in immunocompromised adults (IRR = 3.5, 95% CI 3.4–3.6) and was highest for disseminated zoster (IRR = 31.5, 95% CI 26.3–37.5). Conclusion The risk of HZ and related complications was higher in immunocompromised populations compared with immunocompetent. Our findings underscore the high-risk nature of this population and the potential benefits that may be realized through HZ vaccination of this group. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".