Incidence and costs of hospitalisation due to acute respiratory infection in adults aged over 50 years in Jiangsu, China in 2019–23: a real-world medical database analysis of 0.2 million episodes

By analysing a large regionally representative medical database, we helped address the knowledge gap in the burden and cost of ARI hospitalisation in China. While highlighting the overall substantial disease burden and cost of ARI, we identified important factors such as age, sex, region, and comorbidity that influence the disease burden and cost of ARI.