Effectiveness of influenza vaccine in reducing hospital admissions during the 1989-90 epidemic

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-33

  Ahmed, A H ^a   Nicholson, K G ^a   Nguyen Van Tam, J S ^b   Pearson, J C G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRONCHITIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPHYSEMA; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0031058321     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268896007121     Document Type: Article

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