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Published on: August 14, 2019
Influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel
Sabine Wicker1, Georg Marckmann
1a Occupational Health Service ; University hospital Frankfurt; Goethe University ; Frankfurt am Main , Germany.
Abstract:
The thought is terrifying--you are admitted to the hospital and you die of a nosocomial infection. What sounds like a horror scenario, happens every day in hospitals all over the world. Nosocomial influenza is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality among patients with underlying diseases (especially immunocompromised patients), the elderly, and neonates. Although vaccination of healthcare personnel (HCP) is the main measure for preventing nosocomial influenza and is consistently recommended by public-health authorities, vaccine uptake among HCP remains low. (1.)
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