Patients with flu-associated pneumonia less likely to have received flu vaccine

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/tjnj-pwf100215.php

Public Release: 5-Oct-2015
Patients with flu-associated pneumonia less likely to have received flu vaccine
The JAMA Network Journals

Among children and adults hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia, those with influenza-associated pneumonia, compared with those with pneumonia not associated with influenza, had lower odds of having received an influenza vaccination

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The estimated vaccine effectiveness was 57 percent, meaning that the odds of influenza vaccination among cases hospitalized with influenza-associated pneumonia was 57 percent lower than among noninfluenza pneumonia controls.

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