Risk of pneumonia and pneumococcal disease in people hospitalized with diabetes mellitus: English record-linkage studies.

BACKGROUND: The risk of invasive pneumococcal disease is higher in people with diabetes mellitus than those without. People with diabetes should be considered for routine pneumococcal immunization. This policy has been in place in England for more than a decade. We aimed to estimate, at the populati...

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Main Authors: Seminog, O, Goldacre, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013