Regarding Primary Care Patients Who Received Influenza Vaccine at Veteran Health Administration Medical Centers

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1344-1345

  Decker, Michael D ^a,b   DiazGranados, Carlos A ^a   Chit, Ayman ^a   Hosbach, Phillip ^a   Robertson, Corwin A ^a   Greenberg, David P ^a,c  

^a SANOFI PASTEUR   (France)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; OSELTAMIVIR;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LETTER; MEDICARE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARMACY; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); VETERANS HEALTH; FEMALE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; VETERAN;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; VETERANS;

EID: 84940720192     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ547     Document Type: Letter

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