Using Point of Care Testing to estimate influenza vaccine effectiveness in the English primary care sentinel surveillance network.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Rapid Point of Care Testing (POCT) for influenza could be used to provide information on influenza vaccine effectiveness (IVE) as well as influencing clinical decision-making in primary care.

Methods

We undertook a test negative case control study to estimate the overall and age-specific (6 months-17 years, 18-64 years, ≥65 years old) IVE against medically attended POCT-confirmed influenza. The study took place over the winter of 2019-2020 and was nested within twelve general practices that are part of the Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC), the English sentinel surveillance network.

Results

648 POCT were conducted. 193 (29.7%) of those who were swabbed had received the seasonal influenza vaccine. T

SUBMITTER: de Lusignan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7951853 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature