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Background: A 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) has been licensed in >100 countries to broaden coverage against pneumococcal disease. We assessed whether PCV13 interferes with immune responses to concomitantly administered routine pediatric vaccines.

Methods: Healthy US infants were randomly assigned in 2 studies to receive PCV13 or 7-valent PCV (PCV7) at age 2, 4 and 6 months concomitantly with diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated polio virus, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b, and at age 12-15 months with measles, mumps, rubella, varicella and hepatitus A.

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Profitable versus unprofitable expansion of trauma and critical care surgery.

Ann Surg

October 2005

Department of Surgery, University of Louisville University of Louisville and the Trauma Program in Surgery, University of Louisville Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA.

Background: The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma has proposed that the specialty of trauma and critical care include emergency surgery. We assessed whether this change will have an impact on the financial challenges that this specialty confronts, including inadequate reimbursement for efforts exerted.

Methods: Over a 2-year period, we collected financial data on 6 trauma and critical care surgeons.

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