An Innovative Influenza Vaccination Policy: Targeting Last Season's Patients

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Yamin, Dan ^a,b   Gavious, Arieh ^b,c   Solnik, Eyal ^b   Davidovitch, Nadav ^b   Balicer, Ran D ^d   Galvani, Alison P ^a   Pliskin, Joseph S ^b,e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^d CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VACCINES; VIRUSES;

COMORBIDITIES; CONTACT NETWORKS; CROSS-REACTIVITY; EMPIRICAL DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGY SIMULATION; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; INDIVIDUAL LEVELS; LARGE-SCALES; NETWORK SIMULATION; SMALL WORLDS;

DISEASES;

ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ALGORITHM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MASS IMMUNIZATION; PROCEDURES; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ALGORITHMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISRAEL; MASS VACCINATION; SEASONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901650133     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003643     Document Type: Article

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