Infectious Diseases Society of America

Mandatory policy boosts influenza vaccination rate among health care workers

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 24th, 2010

A mandatory influenza vaccination policy improves immunization rates among health care workers, according to a recent study of a large health care organization. The finding comes from a study, now available online published in the February 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

BJC Health Care, a multi-hospital health care system in the Midwest, implemented a mandatory influenza vaccination policy for its approximately 26,000 employees in 2008 after several years of free vaccinations, extensive educational efforts, and incentives failed to increase the employee vaccination rate to the system's goal of 80...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2010-02-24)

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