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Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness against Hospitalisation with Confirmed Influenza in the 2010-11 Seasons: A Test-negative Observational Study
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Cheng, AC and Holmes, M and Irving, LB and Brown, SGA and Waterer, GW and Korman, TM and Friedman, ND and Senanayake, S and Dwyer, DE and Brady, S and Simpson, G and Wood-Baker, R and Upham, J and Paterson, D and Jenkins, C and Wark, P and Kelly, PM and Kotsimbos, T, Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness against Hospitalisation with Confirmed Influenza in the 2010-11 Seasons: A Test-negative Observational Study, PLoS ONE, 8, (7) Article e68760. ISSN 1932-6203 (2013) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068760
Abstract
Immunisation programs are designed to reduce serious morbidity and mortality from influenza, but most evidence supporting the effectiveness of this intervention has focused on disease in the community or in primary care settings. We aimed to examine the effectiveness of influenza vaccination against hospitalisation with confirmed influenza. We compared influenza vaccination status in patients hospitalised with PCR-confirmed influenza with patients hospitalised with influenza-negative respiratory infections in an Australian sentinel surveillance system. Vaccine effectiveness was estimated from the odds ratio of vaccination in cases and controls. We performed both simple multivariate regression and a stratified analysis based on propensity score of vaccination. Vaccination status was ascertained in 333 of 598 patients with confirmed influenza and 785 of 1384 test-negative patients. Overall estimated crude vaccine effectiveness was 57% (41%, 68%). After adjusting for age, chronic comorbidities and pregnancy status, the estimated vaccine effectiveness was 37% (95% CI: 12%, 55%). In an analysis accounting for a propensity score for vaccination, the estimated vaccine effectiveness was 48.3% (95% CI: 30.0, 61.8%). Influenza vaccination was moderately protective against hospitalisation with influenza in the 2010 and 2011 seasons.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Medical and Health Sciences |
| Research Group: | Clinical Sciences |
| Research Field: | Infectious Diseases |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) |
| Objective Field: | Infectious Diseases |
| UTAS Author: | Wood-Baker, R (Professor Richard Wood-Baker) |
| ID Code: | 89432 |
| Year Published: | 2013 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 32 |
| Deposited By: | Medicine |
| Deposited On: | 2014-03-04 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-11-02 |
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