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G3: Issues in Influenza Vaccination: Side Effects, Vaccine Coverage and Acceptance, and Emergency Response | |||
| This workshop presents an interesting potpourri of presentations on influenza. Presenters will discuss surveillance data on a “new” vaccine adverse event – oculo-respiratory syndrome, present data from a trial to improve influenza vaccination in children, describe the acceptance rate and characteristics of persons who received live-attenuated influenza vaccine during the 2003-04 season, and examine the use of an electronic emergency response network to facilitate urgent communications during the 2003-04 influenza epidemic. | |||
| Learning Objectives: After attending this workshop, participants should be able to describe approaches to improve vaccination of young children and factors that affect patient acceptance of influenza vaccination.
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| Moderator: | Guillermo Herrera | ||
| 8:30 AM | 5806 | Introductory Remarks | |
| 8:45 AM | 5286 | The experience with Oculo-Respiratory Syndrome (ORS) following influenza vaccination in Canada Nooshin Ahmadipour, Robert Pless, Wikke Walop | |
| 9:00 AM | 5207 | Evaluation of Patients Receiving Intranasal Influenza (FluMistTM) Vaccine Jean-Venable R. Goode, Pascale Wortley, Carla Winston, Stephan Foster, Dennis D. Stanley, John O. Beckner, Shane J. Kraus | |
| 9:15 AM | 5121 | Use of SIREN for Communicating with Partners during an Influenza Epidemic in Arizona Laura M. Erhart, Susan Goodykoontz, Joseph Urrea, John Nelson, Kathy Fredrickson, Bob England | |
| 9:30 AM | 4866 | Parental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs (KABs) Regarding Influenza Immunization in Healthy Young Children Matthew F. Daley, Lori A. Crane, Jennifer Barrow, Nellie Hester, Brenda L. Beaty, Kellyn Pearson, Norma Allred, Stephen Berman, Allison Kempe | |
| 9:45 AM | 5807 | Discussion | |