Mandatory influenza vaccination of healthcare workers: Is it necessary or sufficient to protect patients?

Allen Cheuk-Seng Cheng; Leon Worth

doi:10.1071/HI14018

Mandatory influenza vaccination of healthcare workers: Is it necessary or sufficient to protect patients?

Allen Cheuk-Seng Cheng, Leon Worth

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Alfred Hospital

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Abstract

In response to recent calls for mandatory influenza vaccination policies, we argue that these policies are neither necessary nor sufficient to protect patients from healthcare-associated respiratory viral infection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	114 - 115
Number of pages	2
Journal	Healthcare Infection
Volume	19
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1071/HI14018
Publication status	Published - 2014

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