Risk of Pneumococcal Disease in Children With Chronic Medical Conditions in the Era of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
| Autor: | Kimberly M. Shea, Derek Weycker, David R. Strutton, Raymond Farkouh, Stephen I. Pelton, John Edelsberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Risk Microbiology (medical) Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Pneumococcal Infections Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Cohort Studies Pneumococcal Vaccines Humans Medicine Child Retrospective Studies Vaccines Conjugate Immunization Programs business.industry Infant Retrospective cohort study Pneumonia Pneumococcal medicine.disease Comorbidity Asthma Vaccination Pneumonia Pneumococcal infections Infectious Diseases Child Preschool Relative risk Pneumococcal pneumonia Female business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Infectious Diseases. 59:615-623 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 1058-4838 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND In the current era of universal immunization of young children with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, it is unclear whether the high risk ratios for pneumococcal disease previously attributed to specified chronic conditions have persisted. In addition, further analysis of pneumococcal disease risk may clarify whether certain chronic conditions that currently are not specified as significantly increasing the risk of pneumococcal disease should be so considered. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis utilizing healthcare claims data from the period 2007-2010 to compare rates of pneumococcal disease among children |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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