Do Declination Statements Increase Health Care Worker Influenza Vaccination Rates?

Do declination statements increase health care worker influenza vaccination rates?

In response to health care worker influenza vaccination rates that are below desired targets, strategies designed to stimulate vaccination have been proposed, including the use of declination statements for those refusing vaccination. The impact of these statements has not been thoroughly investigated and may be affected by their specific language and context. This review examines the available...

Linking emergency preparedness and health care worker vaccination against influenza: a novel approach.

BACKGROUND Health care workers (HCWs) can acquire and transmit influenza to their patients and coworkers, even while asymptomatic. The U.S. Healthy People 2010 initiative set a national goal of 60% coverage for HCW influenza vaccination by 2010. Yet vaccination rates remain low. In the 2008-2009 influenza season, Flushing Hospital Medical Center (FHMC; New York) adopted a "push/pull" point-of-d...

Influenza vaccination of health care workers.

Influenza vaccination for health care personnel.

Why health care workers decline influenza vaccination.

Influenza vaccine is essential to preventing influenza among health care workers and their patients. Therefore, the staff of the employee health clinic worked diligently to provide an opportunity for all employees to receive influenza vaccinations. Despite these efforts, a significant percentage of employees declined the vaccine. During the 2007-2008 influenza season, employees were instructed ...