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New research on immunization from J.A. Marsteller and co-authors summarized
January 21st, 2009
"Known disparities in pneumococcal vaccination in the community raise the question of whether disparities also exist in the nursing home setting, which is better controlled. This study used nationally representative nursing home data to compare black and white nursing home residents with respect to receiving, not receiving, or having an unknown PPV vaccination status, and to examine the interaction of race with various facility characteristics," scientists writing in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association report. "Multinomial logistic regression was used to analyze a 2-year merged file (1997 and 1999) of the National Nursing Home Survey, a...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-01-21)
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