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Article: Declinations can boost HCW flu vaccine rates.
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- Hospital Employee Health
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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Declinations can boost HCW flu vaccine rates
Yet some nurses complain of 'coercion'
Education alone will not boost your influenza vaccination rates, but a dogged campaign that includes declination statements can produce higher rates.
That is the conclusion of recent research published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE).
The Wisconsin Division of Public Health compared hospitals that vaccinate at least 50% of their health care workers and those with vaccination rates below 50%. "We found that declination forms were significant in getting more people vaccinated," says Gwen Borlaug, CIC, MPH, infection control ...