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Very young children with comorbidities as well as those who are on Medicaid develop more pneumococcal disease than “healthy” children and those who are covered by commercial insurance (abstract 02c).
The investigators conducted a retrospective, observational cohort study examining two U.S. healthcare claims databases: the Optum Clinformatics Data Mart, which tracks commercial insurance claims, and the Merative