Table 1.
Percentage of LTC home residents who received seasonal influenza vaccine
| Variable | New Zealand (n=34 518) |
New Brunswick (n=7006) |
Switzerland (n=2760) |
The Netherlands (n=1508) |
|
| Facility vaccination rate | Mean (SD) | 78.5% (SD=3.7%)* |
84.7% (SD=8.3%) |
65.4% (SD=25.1%) |
78.2% (SD=7.7%) |
| Coefficient of variation | 4.7 | 9.7 | 37.8 | 20.9 | |
| Age | <65 | 65.4% | 83.9% | 50.00% | 64.2% |
| 65–74 | 72.8% | 83.6% | 53.0% | 73.9% | |
| 75–85 | 78.1% | 83.9% | 64.1% | 74.7% | |
| >85 | 80.6% | 85.7% | 66.9% | 77.1% | |
| Sex | Female | 78.6% | 85.3% | 64.8% | 76.3% |
| Male | 78.1% | 83.8% | 61.5% | 74.0% | |
| Married | Yes | NA† | 85.5% | NA† | 75.7% |
| No | 84.6% | 77.5% | |||
| Smokes tobacco | Yes | 66.4% | 74.2% | 57.5% | 67.4% |
| No | 78.9% | 84.9% | 64.2% | 76.3% | |
| Major Comorbidity Count algorithm | 0 | 76.4% | 80.8% | 57.3% | 80.4% |
| 1–2 | 78.7% | 85.2% | 66.0% | 74.8% | |
| ≥3 | 81.2% | 85.5% | 85.1% | 77.3% | |
*Measured at region level.
†NA=data not available.
LTC, long-term care.