Vaccine
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 583-868 (8 January 2010)

Reduction in hospitalizations for diarrhea and rotavirus infections in New York state following introduction of rotavirus vaccine
Pages 754-758
Hwa-Gan H. Chang, Perry F. Smith, Bold Tserenpuntsag, Katherine Markey, Umesh Parashar, Dale L. Morse

Abstract
Objectives
To monitor trends and costs of diarrhea and rotavirus-associated hospitalizations in New York before and after rotavirus vaccine implementation in 2006. To examine rotavirus test results from sentinel hospital-associated laboratories.

Methods
Hospital discharge data and laboratory rotavirus testing data were analyzed for children 1 month up to 18 years of age for 10 sentinel and all statewide hospitals from January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2008.

Results
Among children 1–23 months of age, a 40% reduction in diarrhea-associated hospitalizations and 85% decrease in rotavirus-coded hospitalizations at the 10 sentinel hospitals was observed in 2008.