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Staff flu vaccination reduces incidence of staff and patients
Vaccination of staff in a tertiary care facility over a period of 12 influenza seasons increased vaccination coverage from 4% to 67%, reduced laboratory-confirmed cases of influenza amongst staff from 42% to 9%, and reduced nosocomial cases among hospitalized patients from 32% to 0.
Salgado C, Giannetta E, Hayden F, Farr B. Preventing Nosocomial Influenza by Improving the Vaccine Acceptance Rate of Clinicians. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2004; 25(11): 923-8. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/preventing-nosocomial-influenza-by-improving-the-vaccine-acceptance-rate-of-clinicians/0308090E3A67BEAA74813255CC4FD456