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C van den Dool1, M J M Bonten, E Hak, J Wallinga.
Abstract
Nowadays health care worker (HCW) vaccination is widely recommended. Although the benefits of this strategy have been demonstrated in long-term care settings, no studies have been performed in regular hospital departments. We adapt a previously developed model of influenza transmission in a long-term care nursing home department to study the effects of HCW vaccination in hospital wards. We study both the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing the hazard rates of influenza virus infection for patients. Most scenarios under study show a similar or higher impact of hospital HCW vaccination than has been predicted for the long-term care nursing home department. Therefore, it seems justified to extend the recommendations for HCW vaccination, based on results in the long-term care setting, to short-term care settings as well.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19686690 DOI： 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.07.104
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vaccine ISSN： 0264-410X Impact factor: 3.641