Table 2. Overall influenza and pneumococcal vaccine coverage rates in elderly subjects or in those with chronic medical disease hospitalized in a tertiary hospital.
Influenza vaccine | Pneumococcal vaccine | |||
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≥19 years | ≥65 years | 19-64 years | ≥65 years | |
Vaccine coverage in study populationa (regardless of comorbidities) | 281/491 (57.2%) | 179/243 (73.7%) | –b | 53/243 (21.8%) |
Vaccine coverage in patients with underlying comorbidities | 201/353 (56.9%) | 124/165 (75.2%) | 23/188 (12.2%) | 36/165 (21.8%) |
aSubjects aged ≥50 years or aged ≥19 years with underlying medical conditions (e.g., diabetes, malignancy, chronic cardiovascular diseases [except isolated hypertension], chronic hepatic disease, chronic pulmonary disease, organ/bone marrow transplantation, human immunodeficiency virus infection, or prolonged use of high-dose corticosteroids or immunosuppressive therapy).
bData is not applicable because the analysis of pneumococcal vaccine coverage rate among subjects aged 19-64 years includes only patients with comorbidities.