Volume 30, Number 9—September 2024
Research
Effects of Rotavirus Vaccination Coverage among Infants on Hospital Admission for Gastroenteritis across All Age Groups, Japan, 2011–2019
Abstract
We assessed the effect of rotavirus vaccination coverage on the number of inpatients with gastroenteritis of all ages in Japan. We identified patients admitted with all-cause gastroenteritis during 2011–2019 using data from the Diagnosis Procedure Combination system in Japan. We used generalized estimating equations with a Poisson distribution, using hospital codes as a cluster variable to estimate the impact of rotavirus vaccination coverage by prefecture on monthly numbers of inpatients with all-cause gastroenteritis. We analyzed 294,108 hospitalizations across 569 hospitals. Higher rotavirus vaccination coverage was associated with reduced gastroenteritis hospitalizations compared with the reference category of vaccination coverage <40% (e.g., for coverage >80%, adjusted incidence rate ratio was 0.87 [95% CI 0.83–0.90]). Our results show that achieving higher rotavirus vaccination coverage among infants could benefit the entire population by reducing overall hospitalizations for gastroenteritis for all age groups.
Gastroenteritis is one of the most common infectious diseases, characterized by rapid onset of diarrhea with or without nausea, vomiting, fever, and abdominal pain (1,2). Enteric viruses and bacteria are major causes of gastroenteritis (3,4), although causes of hospitalizations related to gastroenteritis are often unidentified (5). Gastroenteritis affects persons of all ages and is a leading cause of death worldwide (6,7); younger children, the elderly, and immunocompromised patients in particular are at risk of severe gastroenteritis (8–11). Gastroenteritis-related hospitalizations and outpatient visits continue to be significant burdens on health systems (3,12,13).
Rotavirus is a leading cause of gastroenteritis and diarrhea, including fatal illnesses, in both young children and persons of all ages (6). A recent systematic review and meta-analysis reported that the pooled rotavirus prevalence was 7.6% (95% CI 6.2%–9.2%) among persons >5 years of age with diarrhea (14). Rotavirus infection is estimated to cause >200,000 deaths annually in children <5 years of age (15). Oral live-attenuated rotavirus vaccines for infants have been implemented worldwide since 2006. The World Health Organization in 2009 recommended routine immunization for all infants to prevent rotavirus disease (16).
In Japan, the rotavirus vaccine was introduced in 2011 to be administered to infants 2–8 months of age. Rotavirus vaccination coverage in Japan gradually increased from 30% in 2012 to 78% in 2019; however, disparity among prefectures in coverage rates remains relatively high (≈30% in 2019) (17). Implementation of rotavirus vaccines has substantially reduced hospitalizations from rotavirus and all-cause acute gastroenteritis in infants and younger children both in Japan and in other countries (18–20). Of note, population-based surveillance for rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalizations after introduction of rotavirus vaccination identified a reduction in age-specific hospitalization rates among children ineligible for rotavirus vaccination because they were above the upper age limit (21). Furthermore, a large study analyzing saved bacterial cultures from fecal samples reported an almost 50% decline in rotavirus prevalence among adults during the peak rotavirus season after the vaccine was introduced (22). Those studies suggest that rotavirus vaccination for infants might indirectly protect older children and adults from rotavirus.
The long-term impacts of rotavirus vaccination on the entire population have not been fully clarified. Given that gastroenteritis constitutes a significant health concern for person in all age groups, analyzing the effects of rotavirus vaccination on older age groups is warranted. Several recent studies investigating long-term trends after rotavirus vaccine introduction have shown the potential indirect protection of rotavirus vaccination against gastroenteritis (23,24). However, those findings of indirect protection in adults lack consistency, and to date, associations between increases in vaccination coverage and indirect impact from vaccination on gastroenteritis remain unclear. We aimed to assess the effect of rotavirus vaccination coverage on the number of all-age hospital inpatients with gastroenteritis in Japan. We also aimed to describe trends in the numbers of inpatients at high risk of severe gastroenteritis as a foundation for better understanding the public health impacts of infant rotavirus vaccination.
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University (approval no. R0135). Research was conducted in accordance with the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan.
Data Source
We used the Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) administrative claims database, which is a case-mix classification system used in Japan for reimbursing acute care hospitals under the public medical insurance scheme (25). DPC administrative claims data include information on hospital codes, patient demographics, admission and discharge dates, admission routes, outcomes, primary and secondary diagnoses (based on codes from the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision [ICD-10]), comorbidities, complications, and claims for medical services (25). We extracted DPC administrative claims data from the database of the DPC Study Group, comprising voluntarily participating hospitals, which account for >50% of all acute inpatients in Japan (26). We obtained data on rotavirus vaccination coverage by prefecture and year as actual measured values from a previous review of rotavirus vaccination in Japan (17).
Study Population and Definitions
We used data from hospitals that had continuously provided DPC data to the DPC Study Group during 2011–2019 to select the study population. We included in the study all hospitalization data that stated a primary diagnosis, diagnosis causing admission, or the most medically resource-intensive diagnosis of all-cause gastroenteritis during January 2011–December 2019. We used date of discharge, rather than date of admission, to determine the number of monthly inpatients because DPC data were generated after discharge. Gastroenteritis was defined by ICD-10 codes A08.x–A09.x. We categorized included patients into 4 age groups: <5, 5–19, 20–59, and ≥60 years. We defined patients as age-ineligible for rotavirus vaccination if they were age ≥1 year in 2011, ≥2 years in 2012, ≥3 years in 2013, ≥4 years in 2014, ≥5 years in 2015, ≥6 years in 2016, ≥7 years in 2017, ≥8 years in 2018, and ≥9 years in 2019. We obtained information on underlying conditions and medications of patients from the database. We defined underlying conditions at admission by ICD-10 codes C00.0-C97 for cancer and B20.x-B24 for HIV and defined immunocompromised patients as those with cancer or HIV or who had received steroids or immunosuppressants. We defined the rotavirus epidemic season as February–April, on the basis of data from previous studies (27,28).
Statistical Analysis
Our primary outcome of interest was the monthly number of inpatients with all-cause gastroenteritis. We presented the results of time-series of monthly gastroenteritis hospitalizations in total, by age group, and among immunocompromised patients. We also presented annual gastroenteritis hospitalizations during the rotavirus epidemic season in total, by age group, and among immunocompromised patients. We estimated the impact of RV vaccination coverage on the basis of monthly number of gastroenteritis hospitalizations generalized estimating equations (GEE) (29–31) using a log-link function and Poisson distribution. We performed primary analyses using the GEE model for overall patients, the age-ineligible population, and immunocompromised patients. We further performed prespecified secondary analyses on data only from rotavirus-epidemic seasons. In our analyses, we did not account for repeated admission of the same patient, because we assumed that disease duration is short and recurrence rare among patients with gastroenteritis.
Because the numbers of gastroenteritis hospitalizations had a serial correlation within each hospital because of local characteristics and were therefore not independent, we designated hospital codes as cluster variables in the GEE models. We used an exchangeable correlation structure in the GEE model. We considered monthly gastroenteritis inpatients by hospital as a dependent variable and rotavirus vaccination coverage by prefecture as an independent variable. We included age groups, years, and months as covariates in the adjusted model. We treated rotavirus vaccination coverage by prefecture and year as categorical variables (based on incremental 10% increases in coverage), because we assumed that the relationship between coverage and the primary outcome was nonlinear. We considered coverage <40% to be the reference category because annual mean coverage reached as high as 30% in 2012, the second year of the study period. We also treated the 4 age groups and 12 month–defined groups as categorical variables. We calculated incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% CIs from the GEE model. We considered p values <0.05 statistically significant; all tests were 2-tailed. We conducted statistical analyses using Stata/SE version 16.1 (StataCorp LLC, https://www.stata.com).
We analyzed 294,108 hospitalizations for gastroenteritis from 569 hospitals in all 47 prefectures in Japan during 2011–2019. Among patient characteristics, median age was 41 years (interquartile range [IQR] 9–73 years), and the highest number (38.3%) of patients was in the ≥60-year age group. The proportion of immunocompromised patients was 12.94% (Table 1).
Time-Series of Gastroenteritis Hospitalizations
Figure 1
Figure 1. Time trends in gastroenteritis hospitalizations among different study populations in study of effects of rotavirus vaccination coverage among infants on hospital admission for gastroenteritis across all age groups, Japan, 2011–2019....
Figure 2
Figure 2. Annual numbers of gastroenteritis hospitalizations during the rotavirus vaccination epidemic season among different study populations in study of effects of rotavirus vaccination coverage among infants on hospital admission for gastroenteritis...
Annual mean rotavirus vaccination coverage in Japan increased from 30% in 2012 to 78% in 2019 (Figure 1, panel A) (17). Monthly numbers of gastroenteritis inpatients showed seasonality, peaking in winter (November–January). We observed epidemic peaks in December 2012 and December 2016. We found no obvious secular trends in overall gastroenteritis hospitalizations (Figure 1, panel A). We observed a trend of decreasing gastroenteritis hospitalizations among children <5 years of age in the first half of the study period (Figure 1, panel B), but numbers remained relatively stable among older children and adolescents (Figure 1, panel C) and young adults (Figure 1, panel D). We observed a secular trend of increased hospitalizations among adults ≥60 years of age (Figure 1, panel E) and among immunocompromised patients (Figure 1, panel F). Secular trends in the annual numbers of gastroenteritis hospitalizations during rotavirus epidemic seasons varied (Figure 2). We observed a decreasing trend in hospitalizations during rotavirus -epidemic seasons in young children (Figure 2, panel B) and an increasing trend in older adults (Figure 2, panel E) and immunocompromised patients (Figure 2, panel F).
Association of Vaccination Coverage with Monthly Numbers of Gastroenteritis Inpatients
Figure 3
Figure 3. Association between vaccination coverage percentages and gastroenteritis hospitalization from generalized estimating equations analyses in study of effects of rotavirus vaccination coverage among infants on hospital admission for gastroenteritis across all...
Among the overall patient population (N = 294,108), higher rotavirus vaccination coverage was associated with reduced monthly gastroenteritis hospitalizations compared with the reference category of <40% coverage. The IRR for gastroenteritis hospitalization was 0.87 (95% CI 0.83–0.90) for vaccination coverage of >80% after adjusting for age group, year, and month (Table 2; Figure 3, panel A). In the age-ineligible population for rotavirus vaccination (n = 247,156), the IRR for gastroenteritis hospitalization was also lower for vaccination coverage of >80% (adjusted IRR 0.90, 95% CI, 0.87–0.94), and the association between coverage and decreased monthly gastroenteritis hospitalizations was not consistently observed when coverage was <80%. (Figure 3, panel B). However, rotavirus vaccination coverage was not associated with changes in monthly gastroenteritis hospitalizations among immunocompromised patients (Figure 3, panel C). Secondary analyses restricted to rotavirus epidemic seasons also revealed associations between vaccination coverage and monthly gastroenteritis hospitalizations (Table 3). IRRs for gastroenteritis hospitalization gradually decreased with increasing vaccination coverage in the overall population (Figure 3, panel D). We found no vaccination coverage–related reduction in IRRs among the population age-ineligible for vaccination (Figure 3, panel E) or immunocompromised patients (Figure 3, panel F).
Our study demonstrated the effect of rotavirus vaccination coverage on all-age gastroenteritis hospitalizations in Japan. Overall, we found that higher rotavirus vaccination coverage among infants was associated with lower monthly gastroenteritis hospitalizations for all age groups. We found a decreasing trend in IRRs for gastroenteritis hospitalizations as vaccination coverage increased in the overall population. Those results highlight the impact of coverage levels in understanding the effect of rotavirus vaccination on the entire population. The magnitude of this effect seems to be relatively small, however, with a point estimate of ≈0.9 for IRRs. We also showed trends in gastroenteritis hospitalizations among immunocompromised patients, who are at risk of severe gastroenteritis, after rotavirus vaccination introduction. Of note, rotavirus vaccination coverage was not associated with changes in monthly gastroenteritis hospitalizations among immunocompromised patients. Our results suggest that higher rotavirus vaccination coverage among infants has little effect on reducing gastroenteritis hospitalization in immunocompromised patients.
The findings of this study provide meaningful insights into the indirect protective benefits of rotavirus vaccination. Previous studies have suggested that infant rotavirus vaccination affords indirect protection against rotavirus in unvaccinated persons (21–24). Moreover, a multihospital discharge database study showed a lower gastroenteritis hospitalization rate among members of households in which a child had received the rotavirus vaccine (32). Infant rotavirus vaccination may contribute to reducing rotavirus transmission among unvaccinated persons by decreasing the probability of vaccine recipients becoming infected and likelihood of secondary transmission (21,22,32). In addition, the cumulative increase in rotavirus vaccine recipients might potentially lead to a reduction in rotavirus transmission in the entire population. The burden of rotavirus infection in adults compared with children is not well understood (33). Recent reports have highlighted the substantial magnitude of rotavirus in adults with gastroenteritis (6). Furthermore, several large studies have shown reductions in adult hospitalization after vaccination introduction (23,24), although the most affected age group varied among different cohorts, and findings in relation to indirect protection are inconsistent for adults. Taken together, those findings might provide supporting evidence for routine rotavirus immunization of infants and additional clues for understanding disease transmission.
Among major strengths of this study were use of 9-year longitudinal data from >500 hospitals and use of rotavirus vaccination coverage data at the regional level. Several studies of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine have investigated the association between vaccination coverage and indirect protection in the unvaccinated population (34,35). A recent study in Spain found an association between reductions in rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalizations and regional rotavirus vaccination coverage in children <5 years of age (36). Those studies suggested that use of vaccination coverage data can provide valuable insights into understanding regional variations in vaccination coverage and associations between vaccination coverage and indirect protection. An additional strength of this study was its description of the postvaccination trends in hospitalizations for gastroenteritis among immunocompromised patients.
Among our study’s limitations was an inherent problem with the diagnostic coding of gastroenteritis. Previous studies have shown the relatively low sensitivity in diagnosing gastroenteritis using ICD codes, both in children and adults (37,38). Possible misclassification of the diagnosis might have resulted in underestimation of the incidence rate of gastroenteritis. The effect of this limitation appears to be mitigated, however, because it is likely that any misclassification occurred equally across different levels of vaccination coverage. Another limitation was that we did not investigate the effect of vaccination coverage on rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalization. We presumed that an analysis restricted only to patients with the diagnosis of rotavirus gastroenteritis would result in further underestimation of incidence because patients with gastroenteritis are typically not routinely tested for rotavirus in clinical settings (39,40). Instead, we performed secondary analyses with a restriction to the rotavirus epidemic season, which demonstrated results consistent with those of the primary analysis.
Another notable limitation of this study was that rotavirus vaccination coverage was obtained at an aggregate level. Heterogeneity in the distribution of vaccination coverage within the prefecture may lead to confounding for the observed association. Thus, to avoid the ecologic fallacy (41), our results should be interpreted with caution. In addition, we lacked information on socioeconomic status, which could affect both childhood vaccination coverage (42,43) and hospitalization rates. Although we used hospital codes as a cluster variable in the GEE models, results do not account for unmeasured confounding factors. The study population selected from hospitals in the DPC Study Group might have introduced selection bias, another potential limitation. The effect of this bias seems to be limited, however, given the broad coverage of the DPC Study Group database in acute inpatient care in Japan (25).
In conclusion, our study assessed the effects of infant rotavirus vaccination coverage on the number of all-age gastroenteritis hospitalizations in Japan and found higher rotavirus vaccination coverage was associated with a decline in gastroenteritis hospitalization in the overall population. However, the effect size was relatively small. Our study also found gastroenteritis hospitalizations among immunocompromised patients were not affected after rotavirus vaccination introduction. Our findings shed light on the importance of rotavirus vaccination coverage and suggest that, by reducing gastroenteritis hospitalizations, rotavirus vaccination among infants might benefit the entire population.
Acknowledgments
This study was supported by grants from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan (grant nos. 22AA2003 and 23HA2002 to Y.I.) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (grant no. 23H00448 to Y.I.).
Author contributions: K.K.: conceptualization, formal analysis, investigation, methodology, writing (original draft); S.K.: data curation, methodology, writing (review and editing); K.F.: resources, writing (review and editing); Y.I.: funding acquisition, project administration, resources, supervision, writing (review and editing).
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