Health benefits of universal influenza vaccination strategy

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1423-1425

  Viboud, Cécile ^a   Miller, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SIMULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CHILD; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ONTARIO; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55949116705     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050216     Document Type: Short Survey

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