Men B: lack of coverage or vaccine failure?

three doses of hepatitis b vaccine or four doses in chronic renal failure

Smith or failure of information system Coverage of neonatal screening : failure of coverage

Objectives—To evaluate neonatal screening coverage using data routinely collected on the laboratory computer. Subjects—90 850 births in 14 North East Thames community provider districts over a 21 month period. Methods—Births notified to local child health computers are electronically copied to the neonatal laboratory computer system, and incoming Guthrie cards are matched against these birth re...

Coverage of neonatal screening: failure of coverage or failure of information system.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate neonatal screening coverage using data routinely collected on the laboratory computer. SUBJECTS 90 850 births in 14 North East Thames community provider districts over a 21 month period. METHODS Births notified to local child health computers are electronically copied to the neonatal laboratory computer system, and incoming Guthrie cards are matched against these birt...

Gaps in employer coverage: lack of supply or lack of demand?

According to data from the May 1988 Current Population Survey, 18 percent of workers are in firms that do not offer health insurance. The question explored here is whether the absence of insurance in these firms is related to lack of supply (that is, a failure of the firm to offer the benefit because the price it faces is too high or the benefit too low) or lack of demand (that is, employees in...

Improving birth dose coverage of hepatitis B vaccine.

Administration of a birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine (HepB vaccine) to neonates is recommended to prevent mother-to-infant transmission and chronic infection with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Although manufacturers recommend HepB vaccine distribution and storage at 2-8 degrees C, recognition of the heat stability of hepatitis B surface antigen stimulated research into its use after storage at,...