A comparison of the test-negative and the traditional case-control study designs for estimation of influenza vaccine effectiveness under nonrandom vaccination

BACKGROUND: As annual influenza vaccination is recommended for all U.S. persons aged 6 months or older, it is unethical to conduct randomized clinical trials to estimate influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE). Observational studies are being increasingly used to estimate VE. We developed a probability...

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Autores principales: Shi, Meng, An, Qian, Ainslie, Kylie E. C., Haber, Michael, Orenstein, Walter A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5721721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29216845
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2838-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5721721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29216845
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2838-2

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