Family doctor advice and pneumococcal vaccine uptake

• Published in: Journal of epidemiology and community health (1979) 2000-11, Vol.54 (11), p.879-880
• Main Author: JAMES, EDWARD
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adults; Chronic kidney failure; Clinical Competence; Diabetes; Disease prevention; General practice; Gestational age; Heart diseases; HIV; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Immunization; Immunization Programs; Influenza; Kidney diseases; Letters to the Editor; Lung diseases; Meningitis; Physicians, Family; Pneumococcal Infections - prevention & control; Pneumococcal vaccine; Pneumococcal Vaccines - administration & dosage; Pneumonia; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Pulmonary heart disease; Vaccination; Vaccines; Workloads
• ISSN: 0143-005X; 1470-2738
• DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.11.879a

Yes (%) No (%) No answer (%) Adults living in residential or nursing homes 17 (30.3) 31 (55.3) 8 (14.4) All children under 5 years 1 (1.7) 46 (82.1) 9 (16.2) All adults over 65 years of age 7 (12.5) 40 (71.4) 9 (16.1) All adult diabetic patients 1-150 35 (62.5) 15 (26.8) 6 (10.7) All adult patients with chronic heart or lung disease 1-150 43 (76.8) 8 (14.3) 5 (8.9) Patients over two years old with chronic renal disease 1-150 43 (76.8) 6 (10.7) 7 (12.5) Adult patients with hyposplenism from whatever cause 1-150 53 (94.6) 1 (1.7) 2 (3.7) Adults with HIV infection 1-150 37 (66.1) 11 (19.6) 8 (14.3) All adults with previous pneumococcal meningitis 6 (10.7) 37 (66.1) 13 (23.2) Contacts of cases of pneumococcal meningitis 11 (19.6) 33 (58.9) 12 (21.5) Travellers to areas with a high incidence of pneumonia 5 (8.9) 40 (71.4) 11 (19.7) Adult patients receiving immunosuppressive drugs 1-150 35 (62.5) 12 (21.4) 9 (16.1) - For which of the following groups is it your current practice to carry out pneumococcal immunisation?