Beck, CR;
McKenzie, BC;
Hashim, AB;
Harris, RC;
Zanuzdana, A;
Agboado, G;
Orton, E;
... Nguyen-Van-Tam, JS; + view all
(2011)
Influenza vaccination for immunocompromised patients: systematic review and meta-analysis from a public health policy perspective.
PLOS One
, 6
(12)
, Article e29249. 10.1371/journal.pone.0029249.
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Abstract
Immunocompromised patients are vulnerable to severe or complicated influenza infection. Vaccination is widely recommended for this group. This systematic review and meta-analysis assesses influenza vaccination for immunocompromised patients in terms of preventing influenza-like illness and laboratory confirmed influenza, serological response and adverse events.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Influenza vaccination for immunocompromised patients: systematic review and meta-analysis from a public health policy perspective. |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0029249 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029249 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2011 Beck et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This study was commissioned by the Global Influenza Programme, World Health Organization. The University of Nottingham Health Protection Research Group (JSN-V-T, CRB, BCM, ABH, JE, RP) is an official WHO Collaborating Centre for pandemic influenza and research. It receives limited funding from WHO in support of specific activities. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. |
| Keywords: | Health Policy, Humans, Immunocompromised Host, Influenza Vaccines, Placebos, Public Health |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1335217 |
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