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Clinical Trial to Assess the Influenza Vaccination of the Hospitalized Adults

Efficiency in Population of Influenza Vaccination for Flu Prevention of the Hospitalized Adults

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT02027233
Acronym
FLUVAC EV-03
Enrollment
6173
Registered
2014-01-06
Start date
2014-01-01
Completion date
2022-12-31
Last updated
2026-04-24

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Conditions

Severe Acute Respiratory Infection

Keywords

Prevention, Influenza and others respiratory viruses, Adults hospitalized, Vaccines, Effectiveness, surveillance

Brief summary

This study assesses the seasonal of influenza vaccine effectiveness in adults hospitalised with laboratory-confirmed influenza through a network of hospitals in France. Also, To better understand the burden of other respiratory viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and SARS-CoV-2 in hospitalized adults, we need to describe and quantify the population hospitalized due to theses other respiratory viruses.

Detailed description

Influenza vaccination strategies aim at protecting high-risk population from severe outcomes. Estimating the effectiveness of seasonal vaccines against influenza related hospitalisation is important to guide these strategies. The main objective is to measure the population effectiveness of influenza vaccine in patients hospitalized with virologically confirmed influenza laboratory result during all influenza seasons from 2013/2014 to 2021/2022 in a French hospital network. An interim analysis is provided for each influenza season and a global analysis of all seasons. Each year, we also collect data from other respiratory viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) on the hospitalized population. The data for three years confirm that, although RSV is less common than influenza in patients with flu-like symptom (4% of 1452 patients), it is responsible for serious complications at a higher frequency than influenza, especially in the elderly and immunosuppressed patients. To better understand the burden of disease of RSV infection in hospitalized adults, we need to start patients recruitment sooner at the start of the VRS epidemic. With the recent emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and our participation in European projects within the framework of COVID-19 surveillance, the FLUVAC study is an opportunity to collect additional data in patients hospitalized with a severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) which may be due to respiratory infection with an influenza virus or other respiratory viruses including SARS-CoV-2. We therefore propose to collect clinical (chronic diseases, comorbidities, intensive care), epidemiological and virological data throughout the year in adult patients hospitalized for suspected CO-VID-19. This is a study "case-control" involving a nasopharyngeal sample for all hospitalised patients presenting a SARI within seven days. Cases will be patients RT-PCR positive for influenza. Controls will be patients negative for any influenza virus.

Interventions

The nasopharyngeal sample will be used to find the types and subtypes of influenza virus and other respiratory viruses (VRS, SARS-CoV-2 and others).

Sponsors

Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Lead SponsorOTHER_GOV

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Age ≥ 18 year * Affiliated with social security health insurance * Written informed consent * Patients hospitalized for at least 24 hours for one of the reasons indicated in Table 1 of protocol * Presence of Influenza-like syndrome before the hospitalization (even if symptoms are not present at the time of inclusion), or less than 48 hours after the hospitalization * Rapid completion of nasopharyngeal sample after hospitalization without exceeding 7 days after the onset of Influenza-like syndrome

Exclusion criteria

* Realization of nasopharyngeal sampling more than 7 days after the onset of symptoms * Contraindication for influenza vaccine (Hypersensitivity to the active substances, to any of the excipients and to trace eg eggs, including ovalbumin, chicken protein) * Patients institutionalized without regular community interaction * Previously tested positive for any influenza virus in the current season (RT-PCR, multiplex RT-PCR) * Patient under curatorship or under guardianship whose sample was obtained as part of their medical care but not complying with the conditions of Article L1121-8 of the Code de la Santé Publique. * Patient under curatorship or under guardianship whose sample was not obtained as part of their medical care.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Measure of vaccine efficacy in population by comparing the number of influenza cases virologically documented in hospitalized patients vaccinated and unvaccinated.9 yearsThe effectiveness of the vaccine in population will be calculated according to the formula VE = 1 - OR. an interval exact confidence of 95% will be calculated on the point estimate.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Measure of vaccine efficacy in population by age group9 yearsMeasure of vaccine efficacy by comparing the number of influenza cases virologically documented in hospitalized patients vaccinated and unvaccinated according to age groups
Measure of vaccine efficacy in population by influenza type/subtype9 yearsThe objective is to compare the number of influenza cases virologically documented in hospitalized patients vaccinated and unvaccinated depending on the subtypes.
Description of the population hospitalized for syndrome acute respiratory infection (SARI)9 yearsThe objective is to : * Describe and quantify the influenza hospitalized population and its complications (socio-demographic, risk factors, pattern and duration of hospitalization), * Describe and quantify the population hospitalized due to other respiratory viruses (VRS, SARS-CoV-2).

Countries

France

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOROdile Launay, PU-PH

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Apr 25, 2026