Effects of an ongoing epidemic on the annual influenza vaccination rate and vaccination timing among the medicare elderly: 2000-2005

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 99, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Yoo, Byung Kwang ^a   Kasajima, Megumi ^a   Fiscella, Kevin ^b   Bennett, Nancy M ^b   Phelps, Charles E ^a   Szilagyi, Peter G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MEDICARE PART B; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350054404     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.172411     Document Type: Article

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