Open AccessEffectiveness of Influenza Vaccine for Preventing Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations in Immunocompromised Adults
Author(s) -
Kailey Hughes,
Donald B. Middleton,
Mary Patricia Nowalk,
Goundappa K. Balasubramani,
Emily T. Martin,
Manjusha Gaglani,
H. Keipp Talbot,
Manish Patel,
Jill M. Ferdinands,
Richard K. Zimmerman,
Fernanda P. Silveira,
Haiven Study Investigators
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciaa1927
Subject(s) - medicine , influenza vaccine , vaccination , logistic regression , confidence interval , young adult , medical record , immunization , pediatrics , immunology , immune system
Yearly influenza immunization is recommended for immunocompromised (IC) individuals, although immune responses are lower than that for the nonimmunocompromised and the data on vaccine effectiveness (VE) in the IC is scarce. We evaluated VE against influenza-associated hospitalization among IC adults.