Mandatory influenza vaccination of healthcare workers: is it necessary or sufficient to protect patients?
Allen C. Cheng A B C and Leon J. Worth A
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A Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology Unit, Alfred Health, Vic. 3004, Australia.
B Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic. 3004, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Email: allen.cheng@monash.edu
Healthcare Infection 19(3) 114-115 https://doi.org/10.1071/HI14018
Submitted: 15 June 2014 Accepted: 2 July 2014 Published: 24 July 2014
Abstract
In response to recent calls for mandatory influenza vaccination policies, we argue that these policies are neither necessary nor sufficient to protect patients from healthcare-associated respiratory viral infection.
Additional keywords: mandatory policies, vaccine effectiveness.
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