Hospital policies, state laws, and healthcare worker influenza vaccination rates

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 854-857

  Zimmerman, Richard K ^a,b   Lin, Chyongchiou Jeng ^a,b   Raymund, Mahlon ^a   Bialor, Jamie ^b   Sweeney, Patricia M ^b   Nowalk, Mary Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LAW; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY;

EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LEGISLATION, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84880073438     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/671265     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Influenza vaccination coverage among health-care personnel-2011-12 influenza season, United States. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2012; 61:753-757.
2. Rakita RM, Hagar BA, Crome P, Lammert JK. Mandatory influenza vaccination of healthcare workers: a 5-year study. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010;31(9):881-888.
3. Esolen LM, Kilheeney KL, Merkle RE, Bothe A. An alternate approach to improving healthcare worker influenza vaccination rates. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2011;32(7):703-705.
4. US Census Bureau. American FactFinder website. http:// factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml. Accessed December 19, 2012.
5. Stewart AM, Cox MA. State law and influenza vaccination of health care personnel. Vaccine 2013;31(5):827-832.
6. Miller BL, Ahmed F, Lindley MC, Wortley PM. Institutional requirements for influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel: results from a nationally representative survey of acute care hospitals-United States, 2011. Clin Infect Dis 2011;53(11): 1051-1059.
7. Nowalk MP, Lin CJ, Raymund M, Bialor J, Zimmerman RK. Impact of hospital policy on healthcare workers' influenza vaccination rates. Am J Infect Control doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2012.11.011. Electronically published February 16, 2013.
8. Final state-level influenza vaccination coverage estimates for the 2010-11 season-United States, National Immunization Survey and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, August 2010 through May 2011. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/vaccination /coverage_1011estimates.htm. Accessed May 10, 2012.
9. Poland GA. Mandating influenza vaccination for health care workers: putting patients and professional ethics over personal preference. Vaccine 2010;28(36):5757-5759.
10. Ottenberg AL, Wu JT, Poland GA, Jacobson RM, Koenig BA, Tilburt JC. Vaccinating health care workers against influenza: the ethical and legal rationale for a mandate. Am J Public Health 2011;101(2):212-216.