ReviewOpen forum infectious diseases2019
Mandatory Flu Vaccine for Healthcare Workers: Not Worthwhile.
Review in Open forum infectious diseases, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Should governments moralize health?Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- How did Ontario healthcare institutions implement and legitimize Covid-19 vaccine mandates? A qualitative multi‑method study protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
- A Scalar Approach to Vaccination Ethics.The journal of ethics · 2024Article
- Vaccine mandates for healthcare workers beyond COVID-19.Journal of medical ethics · 2023Article
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- The impact of personal coaching on influenza vaccination among healthcare workers before and during COVID-19 pandemic.Vaccine · 2022Article
- Return to Work: Managing Employee Population Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Population health management · 2021Article
- Factors Influencing the Implementation of Flu Vaccination in Healthcare Professionals: Pros and Cons.Materia socio-medica · 2020Review
- Influenza vaccination in the COVID-19 era.Early human development · 2020Article
- Barriers and beliefs among health-care workers regarding seasonal influenza vaccine in Al-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2020Article
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Abstract
In 2010, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology published a recommendation that annual influenza vaccination of healthcare workers be made a condition of employment despite no high-level evidence to support this recommendation. A better strategy for reducing the transmission of respiratory viruses in the healthcare setting would be to encourage vaccination and reduce presenteeism, which is very common among healthcare workers with influenza-like illness. In a hospital with a baseline vaccination compliance of 70%, reducing presenteeism by 2% has the equivalent impact of mandating vaccination in terms of the number of healthcare workers with influenza-like illness at work. Expectations for compliance with interventions to improve the quality of care should be correlated tightly to the underlying evidence to support the intervention, reserving mandates for interventions with very high quality supporting evidence.
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