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- Title
Patients' knowledge of vaccines required when on immunosuppressive therapy.
- Authors
Slater, Jayne
- Abstract
Nearly all patients with inflammatory bowel disease will at some point in their disease process require immunosuppressive therapy to manage their symptoms, such as steroids, purines, thiopurines and biological agents. However, using two or more of these therapies together will increase the risks of the patient developing vaccine-preventable opportunistic infections. In this article, describe s a small, prospective audit, which revealed that as significant proportion of patents were not aware of the vaccinations they required while receiving immunosuppressive therapy and of the need to avoid line vaccines.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; INFLAMMATORY bowel diseases; AUDITING; DOCUMENTATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; OPPORTUNISTIC infections; VACCINES; HEALTH literacy; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED patients; PREVENTION
- Publication
Gastrointestinal Nursing, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
1479-5248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12968/gasn.2013.11.2.31