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Vaccination of healthcare workers to protect patients at increased risk of acute respiratory disease : summary of a systematic review
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Dolan, G., Harris, R., Clarkson, M., Sokal, R., Morgan, R., Mukaigarawa, M., Horiuchi, H. and Hale, Rachel (2013) Vaccination of healthcare workers to protect patients at increased risk of acute respiratory disease : summary of a systematic review. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 7 (S2). pp. 93-96. doi:10.1111/irv.12087 ISSN 1750-2640.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.12087
Abstract
Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at increased risk of exposure to
respiratory pathogens and may transmit infection to vulnerable
patients. This study summarises a recent systematic review, which
aimed to assess evidence that influenza or pneumococcal
vaccination of HCWs provides indirect protection for those patients
most at risk of severe or complicated acute respiratory infection. A
number of healthcare databases and sources of grey literature were
searched using a predefined strategy, and citations screened for
eligibility in accordance with specified inclusion criteria. Risk of bias
was assessed using validated tools and results summarised
qualitatively. Twenty papers were included in the final review, all of
which considered influenza vaccination of HCW. As such, planned
subanalysis of pneumococcal vaccination was discarded. The
majority of primary research studies included (11/14) were
conducted in long-term care facilities, but there was marked
heterogeneity in terms of the population, intervention/exposure and
outcomes considered. Consistency in the direction of effect was
observed across several different outcome measures, suggesting that
influenza vaccination of HCWs is likely to offer some protection.
Further evidence is, however, required from acute care settings.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1750-2640 | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2013 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 7 | ||||||||
Number: | S2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 93-96 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/irv.12087 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 March 2018 |
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