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Editor, Senior Moderator
Influenza Other Respi Viruses. 2011 Nov 14. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00301.x. [Epub ahead of print]
A multi-season national estimate of adult influenza vaccination by US office-based pediatricians, 2006-2011.
Toback SL, Ambrose CS.
Source
MedImmune, LLC, Medical and Scientific Affairs, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Abstract
Please cite this paper as: Toback and Ambrose (2011) A multi-season national estimate of adult influenza vaccination by US office-based pediatricians, 2006-2011. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00301x. There is no national estimate of adult influenza vaccination by US office-based pediatricians. De-identified patient-level data from an electronic healthcare claims database submitted to private and public insurers were analyzed for pediatric offices from the 2006-2007 through 2010-2011 seasons. An average of 321 000 (range: 225 000-434 000) influenza vaccinations per year were estimated to be administered to adults; 52%, 22%, and 26% were given to adults 19-49, 50-64, and ≥65 years of age, respectively. Consistent with the 2010 changes to national guidelines, recommending influenza vaccination of all individuals 6 months of age and older, pediatricians appear to be providing an increasing proportion of adult vaccinations against influenza to adults 19-49 years of age (probably parents of their pediatric patients).
? 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
PMID:
22078028
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22078028
A multi-season national estimate of adult influenza vaccination by US office-based pediatricians, 2006-2011.
Toback SL, Ambrose CS.
Source
MedImmune, LLC, Medical and Scientific Affairs, One MedImmune Way, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Abstract
Please cite this paper as: Toback and Ambrose (2011) A multi-season national estimate of adult influenza vaccination by US office-based pediatricians, 2006-2011. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00301x. There is no national estimate of adult influenza vaccination by US office-based pediatricians. De-identified patient-level data from an electronic healthcare claims database submitted to private and public insurers were analyzed for pediatric offices from the 2006-2007 through 2010-2011 seasons. An average of 321 000 (range: 225 000-434 000) influenza vaccinations per year were estimated to be administered to adults; 52%, 22%, and 26% were given to adults 19-49, 50-64, and ≥65 years of age, respectively. Consistent with the 2010 changes to national guidelines, recommending influenza vaccination of all individuals 6 months of age and older, pediatricians appear to be providing an increasing proportion of adult vaccinations against influenza to adults 19-49 years of age (probably parents of their pediatric patients).
? 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
PMID:
22078028
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22078028