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Editor, Senior Moderator
Clin Infect Dis. 2014 May 6. [Epub ahead of print]
Modeling the effect of different vaccine effectiveness estimates on the number of vaccine prevented influenza associated hospitalizations in older adults.
Fry AM1, Kim IK, Reed C, Thompson M, Chaves SS, Finelli L, Bresee J.
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Abstract
We compared influenza vaccine-prevented hospitalizations in adults aged>65 years for a range of hypothetical effectiveness estimates. During 2012-13, a vaccine with 10% effectiveness (66% coverage)would have averted ∼13,000 hospitalizations and a vaccine with 40% effectiveness would have averted ∼60,000 hospitalizations.Annual vaccination is merited in this vulnerable population.
PMID:
24803379
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24803379
Modeling the effect of different vaccine effectiveness estimates on the number of vaccine prevented influenza associated hospitalizations in older adults.
Fry AM1, Kim IK, Reed C, Thompson M, Chaves SS, Finelli L, Bresee J.
Author information
Abstract
We compared influenza vaccine-prevented hospitalizations in adults aged>65 years for a range of hypothetical effectiveness estimates. During 2012-13, a vaccine with 10% effectiveness (66% coverage)would have averted ∼13,000 hospitalizations and a vaccine with 40% effectiveness would have averted ∼60,000 hospitalizations.Annual vaccination is merited in this vulnerable population.
PMID:
24803379
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24803379