Prevalence of influenza vaccination and associated factors among Chinese nursing home health care workers

BACKGROUND: Influenza vaccination (IV) in nursing home health care workers (nHCWs) can reduce mortality of nursing home older adults. There is no study examining the prevalence of IV in Chinese nHCWs ...postprin

Effectiveness of influenza vaccination in institutionalised older adults: a systematic review

This journal suppl. entitled: 19th Medical Research Conference; Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong KongBACKGROUND: Influenza infection is common among institutionalised older adults. Many non-randomised observational studies on influenza vaccination suggested that it could reduce influenza-related hospitalizations and mortality in institutionalised older adults. Criticism regarding the effectiveness of influenza vaccine estimated by non-randomised observational studies includes the frailty selection bias and use of non-specific outcome like all-cause mortality. A systematic review of studies of influenza vaccination in institutionalized older adults to ...postprin

A randomised controlled trial to compare immunogenicity between intramuscular and intradermal trivalent influenza vaccination in nursing home older adults

BACKGROUND: Immunosenescence in older adults contributes to unsatisfactory immunogenicity towards influenza vaccine. Intradermal (ID) administration of influenza vaccine has been suggested to improve immunogenicity but there is no study regarding the immunogenicity of ID influenza vaccination in nursing home older adults ...postprin

Unexpectedly Higher Morbidity and Mortality of Hospitalized Elderly Patients Associated with Rhinovirus Compared with Influenza Virus Respiratory Tract Infection

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Comparing effectiveness between intramuscular and intradermal trivalent influenza vaccination in nursing home residents: a randomised controlled trial

Oral PresentationBACKGROUND: There is no study comparing clinical effectiveness between intradermal (ID) and intramuscular (IM) administration of influenza vaccination in nursing home older adults ...postprin

Local adverse effect of intradermal administration of influenza vaccination is an indicator of satisfactory immunogenicity

BACKGROUND: There are few studies concerning the association between immunogenicity of intradermal (ID) administration of influenza vaccination and adverse effect of vaccination ...postprin

Immunogenicity of intradermal trivalent influenza vaccine with topical imiquimod: a doubleblind randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Imiquimod, a synthetic toll-like receptor 7-agonist enhanced immunogenicity of influenza vaccine in a mouse model. We hypothesised that topical imiquimod before intradermal trivalent influenza vaccination (TIV) will produce similar effect in human ...postprin

Sensemaking in an online community after financial loss: Enterprising Jamaican investors and the fall of a financial messiah

Online communities are popular sites for collective sensemaking. This study explores sensemaking in one such community following the closure of Olint Corp, a highly successful Jamaican investment club. After Olint’s disbanding, Jamaicans reconnected through online communities to make sense of their financial losses, to make sense of Olint – seen variously as an altruistic endeavour, a global currency trader, or Ponzi scheme – and to make sense of themselves as enterprising investors. This narrative inquiry unveils their rich, multi-voiced, fragmented storying of Olint and its founder, once praised as a ‘financial messiah’