ArticleBMC infectious diseases2015
An effective strategy for influenza vaccination of healthcare workers in Australia: experience at a large health service without a mandatory policy.
Article in BMC infectious diseases, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 3 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
28 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions targeting healthcare worker influenza vaccination: A systematic review.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interventions to increase healthcare workers' adherence to vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 1993 to 2022.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions to increase seasonal influenza vaccine coverage in healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2016Pooled it
- Identifying patterns and profiles of vaccination hesitancy among nurses for tailoring healthcare policies in the UK: A cross-sectional study.International nursing review · 2025Observational
- Digital Gamification Tool (Let's Control Flu) to Increase Vaccination Coverage Rates: Proposal for Algorithm Development.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Strategies used to improve vaccine uptake among healthcare providers: A systematic review.Vaccine: X · 2024Review
- Vaccination policies for healthcare personnel: Current challenges and future perspectives.Vaccine: X · 2022Article
- 'Leading from the front' implementation increases the success of influenza vaccination drives among healthcare workers: a reanalysis of systematic review evidence using Intervention Component Analysis (ICA) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Adverse events of active and placebo groups in SARS-CoV-2 vaccine randomized trials: A systematic review.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2022Article
- Attitudes towards Mandatory Occupational Vaccination and Intention to Get COVID-19 Vaccine during the First Pandemic Wave among Mongolian Healthcare Workers: A Cross-Sectional Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Increasing influenza vaccination coverage in healthcare workers: a review on campaign strategies and their effect.Infection · 2021Review
- Trends, Uptake, and Predictors of Influenza Vaccination Among Healthcare Practitioners During the COVID-19 Pandemic Flu Season (2020) and the Following Season (2021) in Saudi Arabia.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2021Article
- Promotion of the influenza vaccination to hospital staff during pre-employment health check: a prospective, randomised, controlled trial.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2020Article
- Determinants of Vaccination Uptake in Risk Populations: A Comprehensive Literature Review.Vaccines · 2020Review
- Determinants of change in intention to receive influenza vaccination among health-care workers in Singapore.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2020Article
- Article
- Assessment of the belief and attitudes of Iranian healthcare personnel's toward the influenza infection and influenza vaccination.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2019Article
- [Effect of influenza vaccination in Primary Healthcare workers and the general population in Gran Canaria: A cross-sectional study].Atencion primaria · 2019Observational
- Influenza vaccination 2014-2015: Results of a survey conducted among general practitioners in Italy.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2018Article
- Factors associated with influenza vaccination among healthcare workers in acute care hospitals in Canada.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAnnual influenza vaccination of healthcare workers (HCWs) is recommended in Australia, but uptake in healthcare facilities has historically been low (approximately 50%). The objective of this study was to develop and implement a dedicated campaign to improve uptake of staff influenza annual vaccination at a large Australian health service.
methodsA quality improvement program was developed at Alfred Health, a tertiary metropolitan health service spanning 3 campuses. Pre-campaign evaluation was performed by questionnaire in 2013 to plan a multimodal vaccination strategy. Reasons for and against vaccination were captured. A campaign targeting clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers was then implemented between March 31 and July 31 2014. Proportional uptake of influenza vaccination was determined by campus and staff category.
resultsPre-campaign questionnaire responses were received from 1328/6879 HCWs (response rate 20.4%), of which 76% were vaccinated. Common beliefs held by unvaccinated staff included vaccine ineffectiveness (37.1%), that vaccination makes staff unwell (21.0%), or that vaccination is not required because staff are at low risk for acquiring influenza (20.2%). In 2014, 6009/7480 (80.3%) staff were vaccinated, with significant improvement in uptake across all campuses and amongst nursing, medical and allied health staff categories from 2013 to 2014 (p < 0.0001).
conclusionsA non-mandatory multimodal strategy utilising social marketing and a customised staff database was successful in increasing influenza vaccination uptake by all staff categories. The sustainability of dedicated campaigns must be evaluated.
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.