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New Online Tool Focuses On Improving Influenza Immunization Rates For Health Professionals
Recognizing that influenza infection in health care workers can lead to outbreaks with serious consequences for patients, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) has launched an initiative for pharmacists to improve influenza immunization rates among healthcare workers. Health care workers can acquire influenza and unwittingly transmit the virus to patients, other health care workers, and members of their household and the community a day or two before symptoms appear.
Influenza Immunization Essential For Healthcare Workers
Amid reports that the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus could infect half of the U.S. population and the low rates of flu immunization among healthcare workers, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) urges healthcare institutions to require annual flu vaccines for all employees with direct patient contact.
Joint Commission Offers Seasonal Flu Immunization Strategies
Seasonal influenza in health care workers is a personal health threat, but also poses a significant risk to the patients in their care. In an effort to help health care organizations improve the rate of health care worker influenza vaccinations, The Joint Commission is releasing a monograph “Providing a Safer Environment for Health Care Personnel and Patients Through Influenza Vaccination: Strategies from Research and Practice.
Infants’ Pain Response To Immunization Varies Based On Which Vaccine Is First
Infants who receive the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine following the combination vaccine for diphtheria, polio, tetanus, pertussis and Haemophilus influenzae type b appear to experience less pain than those who are immunized in the opposite order, according to a new article.
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