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Article: Infection Control Experts Launch New Initiative to Address Nation's Low Influenza Immunization Rate Among Health Care Workers; Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Aims to Improve Health Care Worker Influenza Immunization Rates.
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- April 14, 2004
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WASHINGTON, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) today announced a new national initiative to improve influenza immunization rates among health care workers. APIC is a non-profit organization with over 10,000 members that supports improvements in the quality of health care through the practice and management of infection control and health care epidemiology.
Influenza immunization rates among health care workers remain unacceptably low, only 36 percent of this group is immunized, despite long-standing recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that all health care ...