Young June Choe

School-age Children as the Dominant Source of Inter-seasonal Influenza Circulation in the Republic of Korea, 2022–2025

Background: Influenza circulates at low levels during summer inter-seasonal periods, potentially bridging consecutive epidemics. Which age groups contribute most to this residual circulation is not well characterized. Methods: We analyzed weekly influenza detection rates from the...

Association between introduction of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and burden of hospitalized adult pneumococcal disease in South Korea – a population-based retrospective database study

Abstract Background Information on the burden of pneumococcal disease and its association with vaccination in South Korea remains limited. This study aims to examine the incidence rate, case fatality rate, healthcare resource utilization and costs of pneumococcal disease in adult...

Performance metrics in systematic reviews and meta-analyses of artificial intelligence-based prediction models for children and pregnant women: protocol for an umbrella review

Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown significant promise in medical diagnostics. However, children and pregnant women represent “vulnerable populations” often underrepresented in large-scale training datasets. This paper summarizes a protocol for an umbrella review aiming to id...