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ReviewClinical microbiology reviews2008

Pertussis vaccination for health care workers.

Thomas J Sandora, Courtney A Gidengil, Grace M Lee

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Review in Clinical microbiology reviews, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Surveillance of Vaccination Coverage Among Adult Populations -United States, 2018.Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C. : 2002) · 2021
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  5. Tdap Vaccination Among Healthcare Personnel-21 States, 2013.American journal of preventive medicine · 2018
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  8. Pertussis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2015
    Review
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  12. Health care workers and pertussis: an underestimated issue.Medizinische Klinik (Munich, Germany : 1983) · 2010
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  13. Antibody decay after immunisation of health-care workers with an acellular pertussis vaccine.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Thomas J SandoraDivision of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. thomas.sandora@childrens.harvard.edu
Courtney A Gidengil
Grace M Lee
Boston Children's Hospital · USHarvard Pilgrim Health Care · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pertussis, an acute respiratory infection caused by Bordetella pertussis, classically manifests as a protracted cough illness. The incidence of pertussis in the United States has been increasing in recent years. Immunity wanes after childhood vaccination, leaving adolescents and adults susceptible to infection. The transmission of pertussis in health care settings has important medical and economic consequences. Acellular pertussis booster vaccines are now available for use and have been recommended for all adolescents and adults. These vaccines are safe, immunogenic, and effective. Health care workers are a priority group for vaccination because of their increased risk of acquiring infection and the potential to transmit pertussis to high-risk patients. Health care worker vaccination programs are likely to be cost-effective, but further research is needed to determine the acceptability of pertussis vaccines among health care workers, the duration of immunity after booster doses, and the impact of vaccination on the management of pertussis exposures in health care settings.

Indexed as

Health PersonnelHumansPertussis VaccineVaccinationWhooping CoughPertussis Vaccine

Identifiers

PMID18625679
PMCPMC2493083
OpenAlexW2170822056

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Registered trials

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