The impact of targeting all elderly persons in England and Wales for yearly influenza vaccination: excess mortality due to pneumonia or influenza and time trend study

Objective To investigate the impact on mortality due to pneumonia or influenza of the change from risk-based to age group-based targeting of the elderly for yearly influenza vaccination in England and Wales.Design Excess mortality estimated using time series of deaths registered to pneumonia or infl...

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Main Authors: Andrea G Mann, Punam Mangtani, Colin A Russell, John C Whittaker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2013-08-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/8/e002743.full