Feasibility of a cluster-randomized influenza vaccination trial in U.S. nursing homes: Lessons learned

• Autors principals: Stefan Gravenstein (Autor), H. Edward Davidson (Autor), Lisa F. Han (Autor), Jessica A. Ogarek (Autor), Roshani Dahal (Autor), Pedro L. Gozalo (Autor), Monica Taljaard (Autor), Vincent Mor (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: article
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Influenza severity increases and vaccine effectiveness decreases with age. High-dose influenza vaccine (HD) with quadruple the antigen of standard-dose (SD) vaccine is more efficacious in community-dwelling persons 65 years and older. We evaluated the feasibility of recruiting and randomizing Medica...