Improving Surveillance of the Impact of Influenza and Its Prevention in Canada
The organization of Canada’s provincial health care systems and the administrative databases that sustain them provide physicians, epidemiologists and public health officials with unique opportunities to improve surveillance of influenza and its prevention. These databases can be used to measure the...
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1993-01-01
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| description | The organization of Canada’s provincial health care systems and the administrative databases that sustain them provide physicians, epidemiologists and public health officials with unique opportunities to improve surveillance of influenza and its prevention. These databases can be used to measure the impact of influenza on excess mortality, hospitalization and costs to the health care system. They can also be used to study the epidemiology of influenza vaccination practices. Studies using the administrative database for the province of Manitoba have established the epidemiological rationale for hospital-based vaccination and have evaluated the clinical effectiveness of influenza vaccination. As pneumococcal vaccination becomes widespread in Canada, provincial databases should also prove useful in assessing the impact of the pneumococcal infections and their prevention with pneumococcal vaccine. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ac26568d88e943a590dbfbf33dff4f812025-08-20T03:39:14ZengWileyCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases1180-23321993-01-014525726210.1155/1993/562460Improving Surveillance of the Impact of Influenza and Its Prevention in CanadaDavid S Fedson0Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virgina, USAThe organization of Canada’s provincial health care systems and the administrative databases that sustain them provide physicians, epidemiologists and public health officials with unique opportunities to improve surveillance of influenza and its prevention. These databases can be used to measure the impact of influenza on excess mortality, hospitalization and costs to the health care system. They can also be used to study the epidemiology of influenza vaccination practices. Studies using the administrative database for the province of Manitoba have established the epidemiological rationale for hospital-based vaccination and have evaluated the clinical effectiveness of influenza vaccination. As pneumococcal vaccination becomes widespread in Canada, provincial databases should also prove useful in assessing the impact of the pneumococcal infections and their prevention with pneumococcal vaccine.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1993/562460 |
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| title | Improving Surveillance of the Impact of Influenza and Its Prevention in Canada |
| title_full | Improving Surveillance of the Impact of Influenza and Its Prevention in Canada |
| title_fullStr | Improving Surveillance of the Impact of Influenza and Its Prevention in Canada |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving Surveillance of the Impact of Influenza and Its Prevention in Canada |
| title_short | Improving Surveillance of the Impact of Influenza and Its Prevention in Canada |
| title_sort | improving surveillance of the impact of influenza and its prevention in canada |
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