Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Health Care Personnel – United States, 2015–16 Influenza Season

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Ball, Sarah W. ; Black, Carla L. ; de Perio, Marie A. ; Delvin, Rebecca ; DiSogra, Charles ; Donahue, Sara M. A. ; Graitcer, Samuel B. ; Greby, Stacie M. ; Izrael, David ; Laney, A. Scott ; Lindley, Megan C. ; Lu, Peng-Jun ; Walker, Deborah K. ; Williams, Walter W. ; Yue, Xin
• Description:
  The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends annual influenza vaccination for all health care personnel to reduce influenza-related morbidity and mortality among both health care personnel and their patients. To estimate influenza vaccination coverage among U.S. health care personnel for the 2015-16 influenza season, CDC conducted an opt-in Internet panel survey of 2,258 health care personnel during March 28-April 14, 2016. Overall, 79.0% of survey participants reported receiving an influenza vaccination during the 2015-16 season, similar to the 77.3% coverage reported for the 2014-15 season. Coverage in long-term care settings increased by 5.3 percentage points compared with the previous season. Vaccination coverage continued to be higher among health care personnel working in hospitals (91.2%) and lower among health care personnel working in ambulatory (79.8%) and long-term care settings (69.2%). Coverage continued to be highest among physicians (95.6%) and lowest among assistants and aides (64.1%), and highest overall among health care personnel who were required by their employer to be vaccinated (96.5%). Among health care personnel working in settings where vaccination was neither required, promoted, nor offered onsite, vaccination coverage continued to be low (44.9%). An increased percentage of health care personnel reporting a vaccination requirement or onsite vaccination availability compared with earlier influenza seasons might have contributed to the overall increase in vaccination coverage during the past 6 influenza seasons. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Communicable Disease Control Communicable Diseases Health Personnel Influenza, Human Mass Behavior Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Pharmacies Preventive Medicine Public Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Viral Diseases Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Behavior-patterns Disease-control Disease-prevention Disease-transmission Employee-exposure Group-behavior Health-care-personnel Health-surveys Humans Infection-control Infectious-diseases Medical-personnel Nurses Personal-protection Pharmacists Physicians Preventive-medicine Protective-measures Public-health Surveillance-programs Vaccines Viral-diseases Viral-infections Work-environment Worker-health

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• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; RHD - Respiratory Health Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• Volume:
  65
• Issue:
  38
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048714
• Citation:
  MMWR 2016 Sep; 65(38):1026-1031
• Email:
  cblack2@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3bf96e3af7df9170106a31b7ec8f00aaeaaf65344d7cd85972a1d9a96a1c14832f293691b8c00d71b3253d9b1aca1d19784fc4a5acd004a608d29d81f6526ee2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/183150/cdc_183150_DS1.pdf
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