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Article: JCAHO adds flu standard with no declination statements required.(Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)
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- Hospital Employee Health
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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JCAHO adds flu standard with no declination statements required
Declinations seen as obstacle to flu immunization
Hospitals must try to improve participation in influenza immunization of health care workers, but the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations won't require them to collect declination statements from employees who refuse the vaccine.
The new Joint Commission standard, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2007, requires hospitals to evaluate why some employees do not receive the annual vaccine and to take steps to improve participation. (For the Elements of Performance, see box below.)
JCAHO standard requires ...