Can we improve influenza vaccination rates in older people with chronic diseases?;¿Podemos mejorar las tasas de vacunación antigripal en los ancianos con enfermedades crónicas?

Atencion Primaria

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 178-183

  Schwarz Chavarri H ^a   Ortuno Lopez J L ^b   Lattur Vilchez A ^c   Pedrera Carbonell, V ^b   Orozco Beltrán, Domingo ^d   Gil Guillen V ^d  

^a Unidad de Calidad y Formacion   (Spain)

^b Direccion de Atencion Primaria   (Spain)

^c Centro de Salud Campello   (Spain)

^d MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chronic diseases; Influenza; Older people; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; INFLUENZA; STATISTICS; VACCINATION;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VACCINATION;

EID: 16844362961     PISSN: 02126567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13072586     Document Type: Article

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