Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination uptake in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with immunosuppressive therapy in the UK: A retrospective cohort study using data from the clinical practice research datalink

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Costello, Ruth ^a   Winthrop, Kevin L ^b   Pye, Stephen R ^a   Brown, Benjamin ^a   Dixon, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION; ADOLESCENT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; COMPLICATION; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84979021688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153848     Document Type: Article

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