Authors’ reply: Influenza vaccination coverage in the United Kingdom

P R Blank; M Schwenkglenks; T D Szucs

doi:10.2807/ese.13.51.19075-en

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Authors’ reply: Influenza vaccination coverage in the United Kingdom
P R Blank¹ , M Schwenkglenks² , T D Szucs¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Institute of Social- and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland ² European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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P Blank
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Citation style for this article: Blank P R, Schwenkglenks M, Szucs T D. Authors’ reply: Influenza vaccination coverage in the United Kingdom . Euro Surveill. 2008;13(51):pii=19075. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.13.51.19075-en Received: 16 Dec 2008

Abstract

At a closer look, our coverage results for this age group and those reported by the HPA are quite similar for 2003-4 (70% vs. 71%, respectively) and 2005-6 (78% vs. 75%, respectively) while our coverage results for 2004-5 and 2006-7 are indeed substantially lower. Given confidence interval widths, as shown in Figure 2 of our report, chance alone does not appear to be a likely explanation for this discrepancy.