Assessing the impact of wastage on pediatric vaccine immunization formulary costs using a vaccine selection algorithm

Vaccine

Volumn 22, Issue 17-18, 2004, Pages 2307-2315

  Jacobson, Sheldon H ^a   Karnani, Tamana ^a   Sewell, Edward C ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Immunization; Operations research; Pediatric vaccine formularies; Vaccine wastage

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG FORMULATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG COSTS; FORMULARIES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 2442590762     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2003.11.018     Document Type: Article

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