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BMJ Evid Based Med . Trivalent and quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine in adults aged 60 and older: a systematic review and network meta-analysi

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Editor, Senior Moderator
BMJ Evid Based Med


. 2024 Apr 10:bmjebm-2023-112767.
doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2023-112767. Online ahead of print. Trivalent and quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine in adults aged 60 and older: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Areti Angeliki Veroniki[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Sai Surabi Thirugnanasampanthar[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Menelaos Konstantinidis[SUP] 3 2 [/SUP], Jasmeen Dourka[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Marco Ghassemi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Dipika Neupane[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Paul Khan[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Vera Nincic[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Margarita Corry[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Reid Robson[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Amanda Parker[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Charlene Soobiah[SUP] 3 2 [/SUP], Angela Sinilaite[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Pamela Doyon-Plourde[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Anabel Gil[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Winnie Siu[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Nasheed Moqueet[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Adrienne Stevens[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Kelly English[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Ivan D Florez[SUP] 7 8 9 [/SUP], Juan J Yepes-Nuñez[SUP] 10 11 [/SUP], Brian Hutton[SUP] 12 [/SUP], Matthew Muller[SUP] 3 13 14 [/SUP], Lorenzo Moja[SUP] 15 [/SUP], Sharon Straus[SUP] 3 2 16 [/SUP], Andrea C Tricco[SUP] 2 17 [/SUP]



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Abstract

Objectives: To compare the efficacy of influenza vaccines of any valency for adults 60 years and older.
Design and setting: Systematic review with network meta-analysis (NMA) of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). MEDLINE, EMBASE, JBI Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Database, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Evidence -Based Medicine database were searched from inception to 20 June 20, 2022. Two reviewers screened, abstracted, and appraised articles (Cochrane Risk of Bias (ROB) 2.0 tool) independently. We assessed certainty of findings using Confidence in Network Meta-Analysis and Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations approaches. We performed random-effects meta-analysis and network meta-analysis (NMA), and estimated odds ratios (ORs) for dichotomous outcomes and incidence rate ratios (IRRs) for count outcomes along with their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) and prediction intervals.
Participants: Older adults (≥60 years old) receiving an influenza vaccine licensed in Canada or the USA (vs placebo, no vaccine, or any other licensed vaccine), at any dose.
Main outcome measures: Laboratory-confirmed influenza (LCI) and influenza-like illness (ILI). Secondary outcomes were the number of vascular adverse events, hospitalisation for acute respiratory infection (ARI) and ILI, inpatient hospitalisation, emergency room (ER) visit for ILI, outpatient visit, and mortality, among others.
Results: We included 41 RCTs and 15 companion reports comprising 8 vaccine types and 206 032 participants. Vaccines may prevent LCI compared with placebo, with high-dose trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV3-HD) (NMA: 9 RCTs, 52 202 participants, OR 0.23, 95% confidence interval (CI) (0.11 to 0.51), low certainty of evidence) and recombinant influenza vaccine (RIV) (OR 0.25, 95%CI (0.08 to 0.73), low certainty of evidence) among the most efficacious vaccines. Standard dose trivalent IIV3 (IIV3-SD) may prevent ILI compared with placebo, but the result was imprecise (meta-analysis: 2 RCTs, 854 participants, OR 0.39, 95%CI (0.15 to 1.02), low certainty of evidence). Any HD was associated with prevention of ILI compared with placebo (NMA: 9 RCTs, 65 658 participants, OR 0.38, 95%CI (0.15 to 0.93)). Adjuvanted quadrivalent IIV (IIV4-Adj) may be associated with the least vascular adverse events, but the results were very uncertain (NMA: eight 8 RCTs, 57 677 participants, IRR 0.18, 95%CI (0.07 to 0.43), very low certainty of evidence). RIV on all-cause mortality may be comparable to placebo (NMA: 20 RCTs, 140 577 participants, OR 1.01, 95%CI (0.23 to 4.49), low certainty of evidence).
Conclusions: This systematic review demonstrated efficacy associated with IIV3-HD and RIV vaccines in protecting older persons against LCI. RIV vaccine may reduce all-cause mortality when compared with other vaccines, but the evidence is uncertain. Differences in efficacy between influenza vaccines remain uncertain with very low to moderate certainty of evidence.
Prospero registration number: CRD42020177357.

Keywords: immunization.

 
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