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Letters |21 September 2010

Barriers to Herpes Zoster Vaccination

Laura Hurley, MD, MPH; Allison Kempe, MD, MPH

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We thank Dr. Opstelten and colleagues for their comments and agree that solving the financial and freezer storage issues we discovered would not remove all barriers to herpes zoster vaccine uptake in the United States. However, the results of our study and those of Opstelten and colleagues' study (1) differ in a few important ways that make direct comparison problematic. First, Opstelten and colleagues' study was done in the Netherlands, and the herpes zoster vaccine was not recommended there at that time; therefore, physicians and patients were probably not familiar with it....
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Hurley L, Kempe A. Barriers to Herpes Zoster Vaccination. Ann Intern Med. 2010;153:418–419. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-153-6-201009210-00015

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2010;153(6):418-419.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-153-6-201009210-00015

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