Vaccination of health care workers to protect patients at increased risk for acute respiratory disease

Dolan, Gayle P., Harris, Rebecca C., Clarkson, Mandy, Sokal, Rachel, Morgan, Gemma, Mukaigawara, Mitsuru, Horiuchi, Hiroshi, Hale, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4248-0391, Stormont, Laura, Béchard-Evans, Laura, Chao, Yi-Sheng, Eremin, Sergey, Martins, Sara, Tam, John S., Peñalver, Javier, Zanuzdana, Arina and Nguyen-Van-Tam, Jonathan S. 2012. Vaccination of health care workers to protect patients at increased risk for acute respiratory disease. Emerging Infectious Disease 18 (8) , p. 1225. 10.3201/eid1808.111355

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Abstract

Health care workers (HCWs) may transmit respiratory infection to patients. We assessed evidence for the effectiveness of vaccinating HCWs to provide indirect protection for patients at risk for severe or complicated disease after acute respiratory infection. We searched electronic health care databases and sources of gray literature by using a predefined strategy. Risk for bias was assessed by using validated tools, and results were synthesized by using a narrative approach. Seventeen of the 12,352 identified citations met the full inclusion criteria, and 3 additional articles were identified from reference or citation tracking. All considered influenza vaccination of HCWs, and most were conducted in long-term residential care settings. Consistency in the direction of effect was observed across several different outcome measures, suggesting a likely protective effect for patients in residential care settings. However, evidence was insufficient for us to confidently extrapolate this to other at-risk patient groups.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ISSN:	1080-6040
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 February 2019
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 14:12
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/119474

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