Haemophilus influenzae vaccine.

Haemophilus influenzae vaccine Hershel Jick, et al 107 Obstetric cholestasis Judith B Weaver 107 General practice-psychiatry liaison by audioconference John D Sheehan, et al 108 Emergency contraception Sue Ziebland and Pilar Garcia 108 Managing violence in the practice Brian A Kidd and Cameron Stark 109 Alzheimers Disease Society H WL Oliver 109 Communication in the year 2000 Brian O'Mahony 109 GP's role in bereavement C C Daniels 110 Shared care for hypertension Neil Snowise 110 Vaginal examination Clare J Seamark 110 Right to receive treatment DLTParsons 111 The Journal T Stuart Murray 111 Hypertension in the very elderly trial John Coope 111 Note to authors of letters: Please note that all letters submitted for publication should be typed with double spacing. Failure to comply with this may lead to delay in publication. Haemophilus influenzae vaccine Sir, Haemophilus influenzae vaccine type b (Hib) was introduced in the United Kingdom in the last months of 1991 and immunization with three doses is recommended for all children aged 12 months or less who have no contraindication to the vaccine.' A single injection is recommended for children between 13 and 48 months of age.' The information available on the computers of some 1400 selected general practitioners in England and Wales who are using practice computers provided by VAMP Health has been reviewed in order to estimate the extent of use of this vaccine and the incidence of H influenzae meningitis. The participating practices have a similar age-sex distribution to that of the population of England and Wales and a similar geographic distribution. The quality and completeness of the recorded information has been documented in many publications.26 Among about 34 000 babies born in 1991 fewer than 1% were immunized with Hib vaccine during that year (Table 1).