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Research on immunization discussed by scientists at University of Pittsburgh
December 10th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "The national health care worker (HCW) influenza vaccination rate is only 42% despite recommendations that HCWs receive influenza vaccine to prevent influenza among patients. Following an educational intervention to improve influenza vaccination in 6 facilities in a large health system (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center), surveys were mailed to 1200 nonphysician HCWs to determine factors related to influenza vaccination and inform the following year's intervention." "HCWs were proportionally sampled with oversampling for minority HCWs, and analyses were weighted to adjust for the clustered nature of the data. Response...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-12-10)
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