Validity of self-reported influenza and pneumococcal vaccination status among a cohort of hospitalized elderly inpatients

Vaccine

Volumn 25, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 4775-4783

  Skull, Susan A ^a,b   Andrews, Ross M ^b   Byrnes, Graham B ^a   Kelly, Heath A ^a,c   Nolan, Terence M ^a,d   Brown, Graham V ^a   Campbell, Donald A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^d MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Influenza vaccines; Pneumococcal vaccines; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VACCINATION;

EID: 34249325099     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.04.015     Document Type: Article

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