Assessing the use of antibiotics and the burden of varicella in Belgium using a retrospective GP database analysis

Table 1 Characteristics of patients with varicella at the index-visit

	N (%)	Male (%)
Total	3235 (100)	50.2
Presence of complications^a
Varicella with complications	406 (12.6)	51.0
Varicella without complications	2829 (87.5)	50.1
Age group
0– year	452 (14)	49.6
2–3 years	1028 (31.8)	55.9
4–6 years	991 (30.6)	50.8
7–12 years	325 (10)	46.8
13–15 years	53 (1.6)	52.8
≥ 16 years	386 (11.9)	37.0

^aComplications reported with/without hard-code link with varicella over the 1-month before and 3-month period after the index-visit. The list of complications was derived from Blumental et al. [12] and Wolfson et al. [20]

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