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Effect of influenza vaccination on primary care contact rates studied.
2004 NOV 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Investigators have studied the effect of the vaccination of high-risk patients against influenza on primary care contact rates during epidemics.
"A general practice (GP)-based retrospective cohort study was conducted to assess the effects of influenza vaccination on the primary care contact rate during influenza epidemics. Given the rising workload of family physicians, particularly due to ageing of the population, it is very relevant to know to whether influenza vaccination of high-risk patients reduces the contact rate during epidemics. No effect of vaccination was found on the contact rate of GP during a mild epidemic period," investigators in the Netherlands report.
"During a 'normal' influenza epidemic, the workload was reduced through fewer contacts by patients with cardiovascular or diabetic diseases," said Margot A. J. B. Tacken at the University Medical Center Nijmegen and collaborators in the Netherlands. "Epidemic periods severe enough to ...
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