Point: Mandatory Influenza Vaccination for All Heath Care Workers? Seven Reasons to Say "No"

Health care workers, mandatory influenza vaccination policies and the law.

Mandatory vaccination of health care workers.

10.1056/nejmp0910151 nejm.org 1 In justifying New York State’s regulations requiring health care workers who have direct contact with patients or who may expose patients to disease to be vacci­ nated against seasonal and H1N1 influenza, New York State Health Commissioner Richard Daines re­ cently argued, “[O]ur overriding concern . . . as health care work­ ers, should be the interests of our pa...

Mandatory influenza immunisation of health-care workers.

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in The Lancet Infect Dis following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Gilbert, G. L., I. Kerridge, P. Cheung, Mandatory influenza immunisation of health-care workers. The Lancet Infect Dis 2010; 10:3-5. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(09)70334-2] is available online at http://www.sciencedirect....

Mandatory influenza vaccination of health care workers: translating policy to practice.

BACKGROUND Influenza vaccination of health care workers has been recommended since 1984. Multiple strategies to enhance vaccination rates have been suggested, but national rates have remained low. METHODS BJC HealthCare is a large Midwestern health care organization with approximately 26,000 employees. Because organizational vaccination rates remained below target levels, influenza vaccinatio...

Requiring influenza vaccination for health care workers.

Annual influenza vaccination for health care workers has the potential to benefit health care professionals, their patients, and their families by reducing the transmission of influenza in the health care setting. Furthermore, staff vaccination programs are cost-effective for health care institutions because of reduced staff illness and absenteeism. Despite international recommendations and str...