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The CDC recently announced it expects a more severe flu season this year, but a study in the January issue of Pediatrics was unable to find a correlation between influenza vaccination rates for children under 5 years old and a decline in children hospitalized for influenza-related illness.
Significant increases in emergency department (ED) visits (P<0.05) and decreases in hospitalizations (P<0.05) over time were not clearly related to vaccination trends, researchers wrote.
"We know the vaccine is 50% to 70% effective in preventing medical care visits for kids, but there's a lot of variability from year to year in which a strain circulates, so it's hard to really link trends in illness to vaccine uptake at this point," said study author Marie R. Griffin, MD, MPH, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
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http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Vaccines/48976
Significant increases in emergency department (ED) visits (P<0.05) and decreases in hospitalizations (P<0.05) over time were not clearly related to vaccination trends, researchers wrote.
"We know the vaccine is 50% to 70% effective in preventing medical care visits for kids, but there's a lot of variability from year to year in which a strain circulates, so it's hard to really link trends in illness to vaccine uptake at this point," said study author Marie R. Griffin, MD, MPH, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
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http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/Vaccines/48976