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Influenza vaccine effectiveness in general practice and in hospital patients in Victoria, 2011–2013

Overview of attention for article published in Medical Journal of Australia, February 2016
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Title
Influenza vaccine effectiveness in general practice and in hospital patients in Victoria, 2011–2013
Published in
Medical Journal of Australia, February 2016
DOI 10.5694/mja15.01017
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Authors

Heath A Kelly, Courtney Lane, Allen C Cheng

Abstract

To compare influenza vaccine effectiveness in the general practice and hospital settings. Analysis of annual case test-negative studies. Victorian sentinel hospitals and general practices, 2011-2013. Patients presenting to general practitioners, or those admitted to hospital with an influenza-like illness who were tested for influenza using a polymerase chain reaction assay. Cases were patients with a positive test result for influenza; non-cases (controls) had a negative test result. Vaccine effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed influenza. Hospitalised patients were on average older and reported a higher proportion of comorbidities than general practice patients. The pooled estimate of influenza vaccine effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed infection for the 3 years was 50% (95% CI, 26%-66%) for general practice patients and 39% (95% CI, 28%-47%) for patients admitted to hospital. Influenza vaccines appeared to be similarly modestly effective in the general practice and hospital settings. Influenza vaccination appears to prevent hospital admission by preventing symptomatic infection rather than by attenuating the severity of illness.

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Geographical breakdown

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Unknown 20 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 9 45%
Researcher 3 15%
Student > Bachelor 2 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 5%
Librarian 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 2 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 9 45%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 70. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2019.
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#614,760
of 25,411,814 outputs
Outputs from Medical Journal of Australia
#341
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#11,226
of 406,602 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Medical Journal of Australia
#7
of 48 outputs
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