Influenza vaccination: Reduction in hospitalizations and death rates among members of "Maccabi Healthcare Services" during the 2000-2001 influenza season

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 706-708

  Shapiro, Yonatan ^a   Shemer, Joshua ^a   Heymann, Anthony ^a   Shalev, Varda ^a   Maharshak, Nitzan ^a   Chodik, Gabriel ^a   Green, Manfred S ^a   Kokia, Ehud ^a  

^a MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elderly; Hospitalization; Influenza; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISKS; IMMUNIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PULMONARY DISEASES;

INFLUENZA;

VACCINES;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARD;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED;

EID: 0242468530     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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