Timing of influenza vaccination in an Australian community-based surveillance system, 2010-14

Authors

  • Benjamin Coghlan Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria; Centre for International Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria
  • Sandra J Carlson Hunter New England Population Health, Newcastle, New South Wales
  • Karin Leder Department of Epidemiology and Preventive 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.2016.40.36

Keywords:

Influenza vaccination uptake, influenza vaccination, timing

Abstract

The national immunization program provides influenza vaccine free to people at high-risk of severe influenza, however, the timing of the delivery of the vaccine is not currently recorded. This paper combines 2010-14 data from an online national community influenza-like illness surveillance system (Flutracking) and an Australia-wide hospital-based sentinel surveillance system (FluCAN) to assess whether adults were vaccinated before the onset of the influenza season and whether the timing of vaccine delivery may be a concern for the validity of hospital studies that estimate influenza vaccine effectiveness.

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01/09/16

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Coghlan, Benjamin, Sandra J Carlson, Karin Leder, Craig B Dalton, and Allen C Cheng. 2016. “Timing of Influenza Vaccination in an Australian Community-Based Surveillance System, 2010-14”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 40 (September):352-55. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2016.40.36.

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