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Preventive health for the elderly. Role of vaccination
1Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville.
The Journal of the Florida Medical Association
|October 1, 1992
Abstract:
Elderly patients should receive three vaccinations as part of routine health maintenance: influenza virus vaccine, pneumococcal vaccine, and tetanus-diphtheria toxoid. The injections are inexpensive, well-tolerated, and effective. The greatest barrier to effective immunization of the elderly population is not patient compliance but physician compliance. You are the key to the preventive health of your patients.