Increasing influenza vaccination among high-risk elderly: a randomized controlled trial of a mail cue in an HMO setting.
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 77 (5), 626-627
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.77.5.626
Abstract
A randomized controlled trial demonstrated that a single mailed influenza vaccination cue increased the vaccination rate among elderly HMO members with high-risk chronic conditions (n = 2217) from 30 per cent to 39 per cent during the fall and winter of 1984/85.Keywords
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