Experience with health care personnel vaccination in České Budějovice Hospital, JSC

Influenza vaccination for health care personnel.

Bordetella pertussis booster vaccination for health care personnel immediately following a pertussis outbreak in a hospital?

Pertussis, caused by the small gram-negative bacterium Bordetella pertussis, is a life-threatening disease in young infants. Although almost all mortalities occur in children aged !6 months, the bacterium causes significant morbidity in all age groups [1], and adolescents and adults are often the source of infection in small children. Symptoms may be the classic ones, with paroxysmal cough and ...

The vital role of influenza vaccination of health care personnel.

Seasonal influenza vaccination campaigns for health care personnel: systematic review.

BACKGROUND In Canada, vaccination coverage for seasonal influenza among health care personnel remains below 50%. The objective of this review was to determine which seasonal influenza vaccination campaign or campaign components in health care settings were significantly associated with increases in influenza vaccination among staff. METHODS We identified articles in eight electronic databases...

State law and influenza vaccination of health care personnel.

Nosocomial influenza outbreaks, attributed to the unvaccinated health care workforce, have contributed to patient complications or death, worker illness and absenteeism, and increased economic costs to the health care system. Since 1981, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that all HCP receive an annual ...