ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2015
Implication of health care personnel in measles transmission.
Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Measles among healthcare workers in Italy: is it time to act?Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2020Pooled it
- Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of general practitioners/family physicians toward their own vaccination: A systematic review.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2016Pooled it
- The Respiratory Protection Effectiveness Clinical Trial (ResPECT): a cluster-randomized comparison of respirator and medical mask effectiveness against respiratory infections in healthcare personnel.BMC infectious diseases · 2016Trial
- The prevalence of measles vaccination in measles-infected healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of infection prevention · 2026Review
- Distinct Clinical and Laboratory Features of Measles in Adults and Children During the 2024 Epidemic: A Retrospective Study from a Romanian Tertiary Infectious Diseases Center.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Observational
- Measles and Varicella Vaccination Program in a Hospital: Implementation and Impact on Contact Tracing.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Article
- Prevalence and management of rubella susceptibility in healthcare workers in Italy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Vaccine: X · 2022Article
- Self-reported immunity and opinions on vaccination of hospital personnel among paediatric healthcare workers in Denmark.Vaccine · 2020Article
- Immunization of Health-Care Providers: Necessity and Public Health Policies.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2016Review
- Postexposure management of healthcare personnel to infectious diseases.Hospital practice (1995) · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2016
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Healthcare personnel (HCP) play an important role in transmission of highly contagious diseases such as measles. Current immunization guidelines in Catalonia include Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) immunization for HCP born after 1967 without evidence of immunity. Despite high vaccination coverage (90%) a high burden of measles cases related to outbreaks have occurred. The aim of this study was to assess the implication of HCP in measles transmission related to healthcare setting. A review of surveillance case data from 2001 to 2013 gathered through the Measles Elimination Program in Catalonia was performed. Twenty six outbreaks involving 797 cases were reported, 52 (6.5%) were HCP aged 21-41 years, 72,5% (38) patient were care personnel (doctors and nurses) and 22,5% (14) other health care related personnel. Forty six 87%) were unvaccinated, 4(10%) had only one dose and 2 had two doses of MMR. In community outbreaks 30 clusters with HCP involved were observed, yet none were identified as index cases. Non-vaccinated HCPs against measles were all under 45 years of age. Vaccination is the only reliable protection against nosocomial spread of measles from HCPs. Assessing vaccination status of HCPs and implementing a 2 dose vaccination in those lacking evidence of immunity is needed in order to set to zero the risk of acquiring and spreading measles in healthcare (HC) settings.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.