Factors associated with continued adherence to influenza vaccination in the elderly

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 246-250

  Martínez Baz, Iván ^a,b   Aguilar, Isabel ^a   Morán, Julio ^c   Albéniz, Esther ^c   Aldaz, Pablo ^d   Castilla, Jesús ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD PÚBLICA DE NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c Centro de Salud Azpilagaña   (Spain)

^d Centro de Salud de San Juan   (Spain)

Author keywords

Elderly; Influenza vaccination; Prevention; Primary health care; Vaccination registry; Vaccine coverage

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; VACCINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; SPAIN;

EID: 84866042770     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.06.020     Document Type: Article

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