Factors associated with influenza vaccination among adult cancer patients: A case-control study

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 899-905

  Vinograd, I ^a,b   Baslo, R ^a   Eliakim Raz, N ^c   Farbman, L ^c   Taha, A ^b   Sakhnini, A ^b   Lador, A ^c   Stemmer, S M ^b,c   Gafter Gvili, A ^c   Fraser, D ^d   Leibovici, L ^b,c   Paul, M ^b,c  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adherence; Chemotherapy; Influenza; Neoplasm; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BIRTH; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLID TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; UTILIZATION; VACCINATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84908040156     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12625     Document Type: Article

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