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17935837

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
46
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-10-30
pubmed:abstractText
Every winter, hospitals face a large increase in emergency respiratory admissions in elderly people. A case-control study was undertaken to assess the effect of routine influenza vaccine in preventing such admissions among a cohort of UK elderly presenting with acute respiratory illness during winter 2003-2004. 157 hospitalised cases and 639 controls (matched for age, sex and week of consultation) were interviewed. In a winter typical of levels of circulating influenza in recent years, influenza vaccine did not show a protective effect on emergency respiratory admissions overall (adjusted OR 1.2 (95%CI 0.8, 1.9). Policy makers should not rely solely on influenza vaccine routinely having a large effect on winter pressures, and should focus on additional preventive strategies.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0264-410X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7909-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
A case-control study of elderly patients with acute respiratory illness: effect of influenza vaccination on admission to hospital in winter 2003-2004.
pubmed:affiliation
Health Protection Research & Development Unit, Health Protection Agency, Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom. r.e.jordan@bham.ac.uk <r.e.jordan@bham.ac.uk>
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Multicenter Study