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Secondary outcomes included severity outcomes (rates of hospitalisation and high dependency care admissions), risk factors for severe disease, economic burden of disease and coinfection prevalence.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>2000 children were included in the analysis (410 primary care and 1590 secondary\/tertiary care). 318 were included in the URTI substudy. RSV prevalence was 50.0% (95% CI 46.7% to 53.3%) in children admitted to hospital via emergency departments (ED), 36.3% (95% CI 31.7% to 41.0%) in ED discharges, 36.5% (95% CI 24.7% to 49.6%) in primary care (LRTI) and 12.7% (95% CI 8.6% to 17.9%) in primary care URTI. Healthy term-born children accounted for 70.1% of RSV hospitalisations. Risk factors for severe disease included any level of prematurity, age &lt;3 months and congenital cardiac disease. RSV-positive cases incurred a higher mean cost per participant (\u00a31811, 95%\u2009CI \u00a31720 to \u00a31903) than RSV-negative cases (\u00a31295, 95%\u2009CI \u00a31220 to \u00a31370).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The findings revealed a substantial burden associated with RSV. Even moderate prematurity was a risk factor for severe disease, and these children may not benefit from maternal RSV vaccination due to missed late gestation antibody transfer. 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