Correlates of change in health care worker seasonal influenza vaccination rates among dialysis facilities.

Abstract:

:We conducted a campaign to increase seasonal influenza vaccination of dialysis health care workers (HCWs) in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Between the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 influenza seasons we examined the correlates of change. HCW vaccination rates improved significantly (P < .01) from a mean ± standard deviation of 64.5 ± 27.4 to 72.7 ± 23.1. Evidence-based practices were in wide use and although we did not find an association between these and improvement, we did find that lower-performing facilities tended to improve more (P < .01) and there was a positive relationship between patient influenza vaccination rates and improvement in HCW rates (P < .01), with the mean ± standard deviation patient rate of 88.3 ± 7.9 exceeding the HCW rate during the 2011-2012 season (P < .01).

journal_name

Am J Infect Control

authors

Lynch JR,Armistead N,Vinson BB,Howard AD

doi

10.1016/j.ajic.2014.12.011

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-04-01 00:00:00

pages

409-11

issue

4

eissn

0196-6553

issn

1527-3296

pii

S0196-6553(14)01397-2

journal_volume

43

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