The effect of giving influenza vaccination to general practitioners: A controlled trial [NCT00221676]

BMC Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Michiels, Barbara ^a   Philips, Hilde ^a   Coenen, Samuel ^a,b   Yane, Fernande ^c   Steinhauser, Toon ^a   Stuyck, Sofie ^a   Denekens, Joke ^a   Van Royen, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOSE SMEAR; RECORDING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROAT CULTURE; TITRIMETRY; VIRUS IMMUNITY; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WINTER;

BELGIUM; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA B VIRUS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 33749569221     PISSN: 17417015     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-4-17     Document Type: Article

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