Low prevalence of flu vaccine in nonagenarians patients [3];Escasa cumplimentación de la vacunación antigripal en pacientes nonagenarios

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 117-118

  Formiga, Francesc ^a   López Soto, Alfons ^b   Masanes, Ferran ^b   Pujol, Ramon ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LETTER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INPATIENTS; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0041885014     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13049253     Document Type: Letter

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