Correlates of general practitioners' recommendations to patients regarding vaccination for the 2009-2010 pandemic influenza (A/H1N1) in France: Implications for future vaccination campaigns

In the pandemic context, GPs' perceptions of disease severity and the risk/efficacy balance of the pvaccine were the major determinants of French GPs recommending pvaccination or not. To increase the general public's acceptability of vaccination policies, GPs should be adequately informed about the course of the epidemics and the safety of the vaccine.