Early use of oseltamivir in hospitalized children with influenza led to better outcomes, according to the results of a large study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
Co-author Patrick S. Walsh, MD, MS, from the division of emergency medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, told Healio that the inspiration for the study came during his fellowship.
“At the time, we were starting influenza season, and I was looking at the recommendations for the drug oseltamivir to be given to most patients that we were treating, and I was honestly questioning the evidence for it a little bit,”