Clinico-demographic Profile and Predictors of Intensive Care Need in Children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus-associated Acute Lower Respiratory Illness during Its Recent Outbreak alongside Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic: An Eastern Indian Perspective.

Introduction: The objective was to delineate the clinico-epidemiological characteristics of hospitalized children with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-associated acute lower respiratory tract infection (RSV-ALRI) during its recent outbreak and to find out the independent predictors of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission.

Materials And Methods: Children aged between 1 month and 12 years who tested positive for RSV were included. Multivariate analysis was performed to identify the independent predictors and predictive scores were developed from the β-coefficients.