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Article: CDC: Use declination statements on flu vaccine.(Excerpt)
- Article from:
- Hospital Employee Health
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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CDC: Use declination statements on flu vaccine
Pressure grows to document why HCWs decline
Hospitals are feeling even greater pressure to ask health care workers to sign declination statements if they don't receive the influenza vaccine.
In its 2007-2008 guidelines for seasonal influenza, the Advisory Committee on Immuniza-tion Practices called on hospitals to "obtain signed declinations from personnel who decline influenza vaccination for reasons other than medical contraindications." The expert panel develops recommendations that are adopted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (For a full excerpt from the guidelines, see ...