Redesigned immunization card and center-based education to reduce childhood immunization dropouts in urban Pakistan: A randomized controlled trial

Vaccine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 467-472

  Usman, Hussain R ^a   Akhtar, Saeed ^b   Habib, Faiza ^a   Jehan, Imtiaz ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Childhood immunization; Dropouts; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION CARD; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URBAN AREA; VACCINE FAILURE;

ADULT; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFANT; MALE; PAKISTAN; PATIENT DROPOUTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57749169958     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.10.048     Document Type: Article

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