PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Julia G.  Harris
TI  - Improving Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in Rheumatology Clinics
AID  - 10.3899/jrheum.210058
DP  - 2021 May 01
TA  - The Journal of Rheumatology
PG  - jrheum.210058
4099  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2021/04/27/jrheum.210058.short
4100  - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2021/04/27/jrheum.210058.full
AB  - Rheumatology patients on immunosuppression are at increased risk of invasive pneumococcal disease. There is a multitude of literature highlighting the risk of pneumococcal infection, hospitalization, and even death in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), in whom incidence of invasive pneumococcal infection is 13 times higher than the general population. 1,2,3,4