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Editor, Senior Moderator
Infection
. 2021 May 20.
doi: 10.1007/s15010-021-01622-9. Online ahead of print.
Brief report: attitudes towards Covid-19 vaccination among hospital employees in a tertiary care university hospital in Germany in December 2020
Stilla Bauernfeind[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Florian Hitzenbichler[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Gunnar Huppertz[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Florian Zeman[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Michael Koller[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Barbara Schmidt[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Annelie Plentz[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Markus Bauswein[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Arno Mohr[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Bernd Salzberger[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination is essential to fight the pandemic. Health care workers (HCWs) are prioritized to get vaccinated, yet uptake of recommended vaccinations is known to be low in this group. In a tertiary care university hospital with a high number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care, 59.5% of surveyed staff (N = 2454) were willing to get vaccinated, 21.4% were unsure and 18.7% refused. Vaccine hesitancy was higher in female, younger and healthy employees without contact to Covid-19 patients; nurses (53.3%) were much less willing to get vaccinated compared to physicians (82.7%).
Keywords: Covid-19; Health care workers; Vaccination; Vaccine hesitancy.
. 2021 May 20.
doi: 10.1007/s15010-021-01622-9. Online ahead of print.
Brief report: attitudes towards Covid-19 vaccination among hospital employees in a tertiary care university hospital in Germany in December 2020
Stilla Bauernfeind[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Florian Hitzenbichler[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Gunnar Huppertz[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Florian Zeman[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Michael Koller[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Barbara Schmidt[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Annelie Plentz[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Markus Bauswein[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Arno Mohr[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Bernd Salzberger[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
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- PMID: 34014530
- DOI: 10.1007/s15010-021-01622-9
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination is essential to fight the pandemic. Health care workers (HCWs) are prioritized to get vaccinated, yet uptake of recommended vaccinations is known to be low in this group. In a tertiary care university hospital with a high number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care, 59.5% of surveyed staff (N = 2454) were willing to get vaccinated, 21.4% were unsure and 18.7% refused. Vaccine hesitancy was higher in female, younger and healthy employees without contact to Covid-19 patients; nurses (53.3%) were much less willing to get vaccinated compared to physicians (82.7%).
Keywords: Covid-19; Health care workers; Vaccination; Vaccine hesitancy.