Raising adult vaccination rates over 4 years among racially diverse patients at inner-city health centers

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1177-1182

  Nowalk, Mary Patricia ^a   Zimmerman, Richard K ^a,b   Lin, Chyongchiou Jeng ^a   Raymund, Mahlon ^a   Tabbarah, Melissa ^a   Wilson, Stephen A ^d   McGaffey, Ann ^d   Wahrenberger, J Todd ^e   Block, Bruce ^f   Hall, David G ^c   Fox, Dwight E ^a   Ricci, Edmund M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c East Liberty Family Health Care Center   (United States)

^d Shadyside and St Margaret Family Health Centers   (United States)

^e Northside Christian Health Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Immunization; Influenza vaccine; Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine; Utilization

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS POLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AGED; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 48449101989     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01769.x     Document Type: Article

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