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WMJ. 2012 Apr;111(2):68-71.
Influenza vaccination as a condition of employment for a large regional health care system.
Smith DR, Van Cleave B.
Source
Office of Patient Experience and Care Management, Aurora Health Care, Elm Grove, WI 53122, USA. david.r.smith.md@aurora.org
Abstract
Aurora Health Care (Aurora) is a large integrated delivery system in eastern Wisconsin/northern Illinois that serves over 1.2 million patients per year and has over 30,000 employees. Aurora adopted a policy of annual influenza vaccination as a condition of employment for all employees during May 2011, to commence with the 2011-2012 influenza season. The percentage of employees vaccinated against influenza had been below 100%-the rate recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The intervention increased the percentage of employees vaccinated to 97.7% in the first year of implementation, compared to 71% in 2010 (P < 0.00001). No medical or economic reactions to this intervention were determined to be unmanageable. Aurora recommends that health systems that currently fail to achieve 90% employee influenza vaccination rates adopt a similar process.
PMID:
22616475
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Influenza vaccination as a condition of employment for a large regional health care system.
Smith DR, Van Cleave B.
Source
Office of Patient Experience and Care Management, Aurora Health Care, Elm Grove, WI 53122, USA. david.r.smith.md@aurora.org
Abstract
Aurora Health Care (Aurora) is a large integrated delivery system in eastern Wisconsin/northern Illinois that serves over 1.2 million patients per year and has over 30,000 employees. Aurora adopted a policy of annual influenza vaccination as a condition of employment for all employees during May 2011, to commence with the 2011-2012 influenza season. The percentage of employees vaccinated against influenza had been below 100%-the rate recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The intervention increased the percentage of employees vaccinated to 97.7% in the first year of implementation, compared to 71% in 2010 (P < 0.00001). No medical or economic reactions to this intervention were determined to be unmanageable. Aurora recommends that health systems that currently fail to achieve 90% employee influenza vaccination rates adopt a similar process.
PMID:
22616475
[PubMed - in process]
Free full text
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22616475