Appropriateness of administrative data for vaccine impact evaluation: The case of pneumonia hospitalizations and pneumococcal vaccine in Brazil

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 334-342

  Sgambatti, S ^a   Minamisava, R ^b   Afonso, E T ^a,b   Toscano, C M ^b   Bierrenbach, A L ^b   Andrade, A L ^b  

^a PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Administrative data; children; community acquired pneumonia; linkage; pneumococcal vaccine; pneumonia surveillance; vaccine impact

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; 10-VALENT PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG SCREENING; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREND STUDY; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; NEWBORN; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84925228399     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268814000922     Document Type: Article

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