The burden of rotavirus‐related illness among young children on the Australian health care system

Objective: To provide estimates of the annual number and cost of hospital admissions, emergency department (ED) visits and general practitioner (GP) visits for rotavirus (RV) related acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in young children in Australia.

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