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Adult Immunization

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1989
Although often overlooked in adults, vaccination is an inexpensive, cost-effective means of preventing serious morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases. Primary care physicians have a unique opportunity to implement systems to ensure that their patients are adequately immunized.
J E, Korn, G A, Poland
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Immunization of Adults

New England Journal of Medicine, 1993
In the United States, the immunization of adults does not receive the same priority as the immunization of children, although deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases occur predominantly in adults. About 50,000 to 70,000 adults die each year from pneumococcal infection, influenza, or hepatitis B (Table 1),1 as compared with about 1000 children who die ...
Jane F. Desforges   +2 more
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Adult Immunizations

Treatment guidelines from the Medical Letter, 2012
No vaccine is 100 % effective or completely safe. All vaccines are associated with risks and benefits that need to be balanced against each other. Personal benefits include protection from illness, improved quality of life, and prevention of death. Societal benefits include creation of herd immunity, prevention of disease outbreaks, and a decrease in ...
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Barriers to Adult Immunization

The American Journal of Medicine, 2008
Our aim was to provide a better understanding of why many adults fail to receive recommended immunizations. Consumers (N = 2,002) and healthcare providers (N = 200) completed structured telephone interviews concerning their attitudes and knowledge about adult vaccines and factors affecting their vaccination decisions.
David R, Johnson   +2 more
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Immunizations for adult women

Menopause, 2016
Abstract Immunizations protect individual persons and contribute to public health by reducing morbidity and mortality associated with common infectious diseases. In this Practice Pearl, we review guidelines for adult immunizations and recent and potential changes in vaccines.
Stephanie S, Faubion, Lisa C, Larkin
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Immunization Programs for Adults

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1977
To the Editor.— The points made by Hickman and Barness in their commentary "Immunization Program for Adults" (237:129, 1977) are well taken but deserve some amplification. First, physicians considering administration of tetanus toxoid as part of wound prophylaxis would be well advised in most cases to use tetanusdiphtheria toxoids (adult). No tetanus
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Adult immunization.

Treatment guidelines from the Medical Letter, 2009
Although immunization programs have produced high vaccination rates in US infants and children, similar successes have not been achieved in adults. Vaccines recommended for routine use in adults are reviewed here. Vaccines for travel are reviewed separately.
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Active Immunizations for Adults

Annual Review of Medicine, 1980
Lack of effective antiviral drugs has led to dependence on vaccines for control of many viral diseases. These diseases are primarily "childhood diseases," so immunization activities have largely been directed toward children. Notable exceptions to this emphasis on children are influenza immunizations.
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