PUBLISHED: 2017
CATEGORY: Health care providers
TYPE: External Link The impact of repeated vaccination on influenza vaccine effectiveness: a systematic review and meta-analysis
The impact of repeated vaccination on influenza vaccine effectiveness: a systematic review and meta-analysis The impact of repeated vaccination on influenza vaccine effectiveness: a systematic review and meta-analysis
From the patient perspective, the study’s results support current season vaccination regardless of prior season vaccination. Researchers found no overall evidence that prior season vaccination negatively impacts current season vaccine effectiveness. It is important that future vaccine effectiveness studies include vaccination history over multiple seasons in order to evaluate repeated vaccination in more detail.
Authors: Ramsay LC et al.
Journal Issue: 159
Journal Title: BMC Medicine
Journal Volume: 15
Publisher: Publisher
BioMed Central