SynthesisVaccine2014
A global perspective of vaccination of healthcare personnel against measles: systematic review.
Synthesis in Vaccine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Measles among healthcare workers in Italy: is it time to act?Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2020Pooled it
- Measles Seroprevalence Among Healthcare Workers in a Tertiary Hospital in Central Greece, 2017.Vaccines · 2026Article
- Variation in measles seroprevalence among medical students based on place and year of birth: Ege University experience.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Evaluation of vaccination status of health care workers for recommended vaccines and their acceptance of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Article
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- Susceptibility towards Chickenpox, Measles and Rubella among Healthcare Workers at a Teaching Hospital in Rome.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Control of a nosocomial measles outbreak among previously vaccinated adults in a population with high vaccine coverage: Korea, 2019.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2022Article
- Barriers for vaccination of healthcare workers.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021Article
- Lower Rate of Seropositivity to Measles Among Young Healthcare Personnel in New York City.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Article
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- Immunization Status against Measles of Health-Care Workers Operating at Three Sicilian University Hospitals: An Observational Study.Vaccines · 2019Article
- Observational study of a new strategy and management policy for measles prevention in medical personnel in a hospital setting.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Observational
- Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory characteristics of the measles resurgence in the Republic of Serbia in 2014-2015.PloS one · 2019Article
- Cost-effectiveness of workplace vaccination against measles.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2019Article
- Measles and rubella elimination: learning from polio eradication and moving forward with a diagonal approach.Expert review of vaccines · 2017Review
- Large measles epidemic in the Netherlands, May 2013 to March 2014: changing epidemiology.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2017Article
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Measles transmission has been well documented in healthcare facilities. Healthcare personnel who are unvaccinated and who lack other evidence of measles immunity put themselves and their patients at risk for measles. We conducted a systematic literature review of measles vaccination policies and their implementation in healthcare personnel, measles seroprevalence among healthcare personnel, measles transmission and disease burden in healthcare settings, and impact/costs incurred by healthcare facilities for healthcare-associated measles transmission. Five database searches yielded 135 relevant articles; 47 additional articles were found through cross-referencing. The risk of acquiring measles is estimated to be 2 to 19 times higher for susceptible healthcare personnel than for the general population. Fifty-three articles published worldwide during 1989-2013 reported measles transmission from patients to healthcare personnel; many of the healthcare personnel were unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status. Eighteen articles published worldwide during 1982-2013 described examples of transmission from healthcare personnel to patients or to other healthcare personnel. Half of European countries have no measles vaccine policies for healthcare personnel. There is no global policy recommendation for the vaccination of healthcare personnel against measles. Even in countries such as the United States or Finland that have national policies, the recommendations are not uniformly implemented in healthcare facilities. Measles serosusceptibility in healthcare personnel varied widely across studies (median 6.5%, range 0-46%) but was consistently higher among younger healthcare personnel. Deficiencies in documentation of two doses of measles vaccination or other evidence of immunity among healthcare personnel presents challenges in responding to measles exposures in healthcare settings. Evaluating and containing exposures and outbreaks in healthcare settings can be disruptive and costly. Establishing policies for measles vaccination for healthcare personnel is an important strategy towards achieving measles elimination and should be a high priority for global policy setting groups, governments, and hospitals.
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