TY - JOUR T1 - <span hwp:id="article-title-1" class="article-title">Review: pneumococcal vaccination is not effective for preventing pneumonia, bacteraemia, bronchitis, or mortality</span><span hwp:id="article-title-2" class="sub-article-title">Review: pneumococcal vaccination is not effective for preventing pneumonia, bacteraemia, bronchitis, or mortality</span> JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - 109 LP - 109 DO - 10.1136/ebm.14.4.109 VL - 14 IS - 4 AU - Jennie Johnstone Y1 - 2009/08/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/14/4/109.abstract N2 - Is pneumococcal vaccination effective for various clinical outcomes in adults?Included studies compared pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine with placebo, other vaccines, or no intervention (control). Studies of children; evaluation of antibody responses only or pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines as a booster after conjugate pneumococcal vaccine; or animal, laboratory, and observational intervention studies were excluded. Outcomes were definitive pneumococcal pneumonia, presumptive pneumococcal pneumonia, all-cause pneumonia, bacteraemia or invasive pneumococcal disease, bronchitis, all-cause mortality, pneumonia mortality, and mortality from pneumococcal infection.Medline (1966 to May 2007), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (1974 to May 2007), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Latin American and … ER -