Supplemental digital content 2 - Annual incidences of Kawasaki disease per 100.000 children less than 5 years of age in different countries worldwide
Country Incidence Data source Year of data
collection [no. years]
Ref.*
Australia
Australia 3.7 National surveillance system: Australian Paediatric Surveillance unit (www.inopsu.com)
1993-1995 [2] (1)
New Zealand 8.0 National surveillance system: New Zealand Paediatric Surveillance unit (www.inopsu.com)
2001-2003 [2] (2)
Europe
Denmark 3.6 Retrospective review of national hospital discharge register
1981-2005 [15] (3)
Norway 5.4 Review of hospital discharge registries 1998-2009 [10] (4) The Netherlands 5.8 National surveillance system: Dutch Pediatric
Surveillance Unit
2008-2013 [5] -
Sweden 7.4 Hospital discharge records 1998-2009 [10] (4)
England 8.4 Hospital admission data 1998-2003 [5] (5)
France (Northern part)
9.0 Prospective cohort study in pediatric
departments of 18 hospitals in Northern France
2005-2006 [1] (6)
Iceland 10.7 National report system 1996-2006 [10] (7)
Finland 11.4 Review of hospital discharge registries 1998-2009 [10] (4) Ireland 15.2 Review of hospital discharge registries 1996-2001 [5] (8) Italy
(Northeastern area)
15.4 Retrospective review of medical records of all children admitted to the regional hospitals
1981-1983 [2] (9)
Middle East
Israel 6.4 Retrospective review of discharge data (Israel National Hospital Discharge Register)
1996-2011 [14] (10)
South America
Chile 6.8 Retrospective review of national hospital discharge databases
2001-2007 [5] (11)
North America
Jamaica 2.7 Retrospective review of hospital discharge records of major referral centers island wide
1986-1998 [12] (12)
Canada (Ontario)
26.2 Triennial surveillance: retrospective review of hospital discharge records and contact of pediatric cardiologists
1995-2007 [12] (13)
Hawaii 50.4 Retrospective review of hospital discharge records
1996-2007 [10] (14)
Asia
Thailand 2.7 Review of registry from major cardiac referral centres (National Registry of Thai Children)
1998-2002 (15)
China
Jilin Province 5.0 Survey in the 32 provincial hospitals 1999-2009 [10] (16) Sichuan 7.1 Survey in 212 provincial hospitals 1997-2002 [5] (17) Hong Kong 39.0 Prospective surveillance (1997-2000) 1997-2000 [3] (18) Shanghai 46.3 Survey in 50 hospitals providing pediatric care 2003-2008 [5] (19) Beijing 49.4 Survey and review of records in 45 hospitals
with pediatric departments in Beijing and its suburbs
2000-2005 [5] (20)
Taiwan 69.0 National health insurance database 2003-2007 [4] (21) Korea 113.1 Retrospective survey in 101 general hospitals 2006-2009 [3] (22)
Japan 222.9 21st nationwide survey 2009-2011 [2] (23)
* When more than one study has been published from a single country, the latest study was reported.
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