Annual influenza vaccination in community-dwelling elderly individuals and the risk of lower respiratory tract infections or pneumonia

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1980-1985

  Voordouw, Bettie C G ^a,b   Sturkenboom, Miriam C J M ^a   Dieleman, Jeanne P ^a   Stijnen, Theo ^a   Van Der Lei, Johan ^a   Stricker, Bruno H C ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICINES EVALUATION BOARD   (Netherlands)

^c Drug Safety Unit   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PNEUMONIA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK; SEX FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 33749541973     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.166.18.1980     Document Type: Article

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