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Jill M. Ferdinands

Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications -  80
Citations -  3679

Jill M. Ferdinands is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Influenza vaccine & Vaccination. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 68 publications receiving 1880 citations. Previous affiliations of Jill M. Ferdinands include Battelle Memorial Institute.

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The case test-negative design for studies of the effectiveness of influenza vaccine.

TL;DR: Under sets of increasingly general assumptions, it is found that the case test-negative design can provide unbiased VE estimates, but if vaccinated cases are less severely ill and seek care less frequently than unvaccinated cases, then an appropriate adjustment for illness severity is required to avoid bias in effectiveness estimates.