Influenza: A Clinical Update Following a Century of Influenza Science

Although influenza science has come a long way since the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, influenza continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. This review provides current, evidence-based recommendations regarding influenza prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Nurse practitioners can help reduce influenza-associated morbidity and mortality by receiving annual influenza vaccinations, encouraging patients and community members to receive annual influenza vaccinations, developing and implementing strategies to improve influenza vaccination rates, encouraging preventive personal and community nonpharmaceutical interventions during influenza outbreaks, and by routinely reviewing and implementing current influenza recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.