Influenza

Cost-Benefit of Flu Shots for Healthy Working Adults Questioned

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 22nd, 2000

Giving influenza shots to healthy working adults who are less than 65 years of age can reduce rates of illness and work absenteeism, but may not be cost-beneficial overall, according to a new study published in the October 4, 2000, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Carolyn Buxton Bridges, MD, from the National Center for Infectious Diseases, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of influenza vaccination and the economic costs associated with influenza-like illness (ILI) in persons who received the vaccine and those who did not. Bridges presented the findings at a...

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