Estimates of influenza vaccine coverage from Victorian surveillance systems based in the community, primary care and hospitals

Authors

  • Benjamin Coghlan Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria; Centre for International Health, Melbourne, Victoria
  • Heath A Kelly College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
  • Sandra J Carlson Hunter New England Population Health, Newcastle, New South Wales
  • Kristina A Grant Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria
  • Karin Leder Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria
  • Craig B Dalton Hunter New England Population Health, Newcastle, New South Wales; School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales
  • Allen C Cheng Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria; Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology Unit, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2016.40.14

Keywords:

Influenza surveillance, Influenza vaccination uptake, Victoria

Abstract

Victoria (and Australia) currently has no routine means of measuring influenza vaccination coverage among adult groups that are eligible for publicly funded vaccine. This paper examines vaccination coverage during 2010-14 for Victorian patients recruited by Flutracking, an online community influenza-like illness surveillance system, VicSPIN, a general practice-based surveillance system, and FluCAN, a hospital-based sentinel surveillance system, to assess whether together these three systems might provide timely estimates of vaccine coverage for high-risk adult groups.

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Published

01/06/16

How to Cite

Coghlan, Benjamin, Heath A Kelly, Sandra J Carlson, Kristina A Grant, Karin Leder, Craig B Dalton, and Allen C Cheng. 2016. “ Estimates of Influenza Vaccine Coverage from Victorian Surveillance Systems Based in the Community, Primary Care and Hospitals”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 40 (June):204-6. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2016.40.14.

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Vol. 40 (2016)

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