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Editor, Senior Moderator
S D Med. 2013;Spec no:101-9.
Vaccination and the health care worker.
Keegan JM, Derby RV, Rhames T, Boersma B.
Source
Regional Health Physicians, Rapid City, SD, USA.
Abstract
Historically, health care worker vaccination has been a strategy to protect the health care worker from infectious work related risk. This article will discuss the transition to health care worker vaccination as a key patient safety initiative for hospitals and health care systems. As the case is evolving toward mandatory influenza vaccination of health care workers, we have outlined key success factors for a voluntary program in a rural frontier referral hospital. Additionally, pertussis vaccination for health care workers is discussed as to the patient safety aspects of a progressive approach further making the case for value creation on behalf of our patients we have the privilege of providing care.
PMID:
23444600
[PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23444600
Vaccination and the health care worker.
Keegan JM, Derby RV, Rhames T, Boersma B.
Source
Regional Health Physicians, Rapid City, SD, USA.
Abstract
Historically, health care worker vaccination has been a strategy to protect the health care worker from infectious work related risk. This article will discuss the transition to health care worker vaccination as a key patient safety initiative for hospitals and health care systems. As the case is evolving toward mandatory influenza vaccination of health care workers, we have outlined key success factors for a voluntary program in a rural frontier referral hospital. Additionally, pertussis vaccination for health care workers is discussed as to the patient safety aspects of a progressive approach further making the case for value creation on behalf of our patients we have the privilege of providing care.
PMID:
23444600
[PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23444600