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- Title
Vaccines for Preventing Influenza in Older Patients.
- Authors
Guirguis-Blake, Janelle
- Abstract
The article discusses the efficacy of influenza vaccines in older patients. Based on observational studies, influenza vaccination in older people reduces pneumonia cases, hospital admissions and influenza-related deaths by 45%. Influenza vaccination also prevents hospitalizations from the disease and other respiratory illness by 25%. Out of 71 case-control studies, 64 of them addressed the effectiveness of influenza vaccines in older persons.
- Subjects
INFLUENZA vaccines; INFLUENZA prevention; RESPIRATORY infections in old age; PREVENTIVE medicine; HEALTH of older people
- Publication
American Family Physician, 2007, Vol 75, Issue 3, p337
- ISSN
0002-838X
- Publication type
Article