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Vaccination of Health Care Workers to protect patients at increased risk for acute respiratory disease
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Dolan, Gayle P., Harris, Rebecca C., Clarkson, Mandy, Sokal, Rachel, Morgan, Gemma, Mukaigawara, Mitsuru, Horiuchi, Hiroshi, Hale, Rachel, Stormont, Laura, Béchard-Evans, Laura, Chao, Yi-Sheng, Eremin, Sergey, Martins, Sara, Tam, John S., Peñalver, Javier, Zanuzdana, Arina and Nguyen-Van-Tam, Jonathan S. (2012) Vaccination of Health Care Workers to protect patients at increased risk for acute respiratory disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases , 18 (8). pp. 1225-1234. doi:10.3201/eid1808.111355 ISSN 1080-6059.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1808.111355
Abstract
Health care workers (HCWs) may transmit respiratory infection to patients. We assessed evidence for the effectiveness of vaccinating HCWs to provide indirect protection for patients at risk for severe or complicated disease after acute respiratory infection. We searched electronic health care databases and sources of gray literature by using a predefined strategy. Risk for bias was assessed by using validated tools, and results were synthesized by using a narrative approach. Seventeen of the 12,352 identified citations met the full inclusion criteria, and 3 additional articles were identified from reference or citation tracking. All considered influenza vaccination of HCWs, and most were conducted in long-term residential care settings. Consistency in the direction of effect was observed across several different outcome measures, suggesting a likely protective effect for patients in residential care settings. However, evidence was insufficient for us to confidently extrapolate this to other at-risk patient groups.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | 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: | Emerging Infectious Diseases | ||||
Publisher: | US Department of Health and Human Services | ||||
ISSN: | 1080-6059 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | 18 | ||||
Number: | 8 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1225-1234 | ||||
DOI: | 10.3201/eid1808.111355 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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