Showing posts with label Mandatory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mandatory. Show all posts
Saturday, August 31, 2013

New York State’s New HCW Flu Vaccination Policy

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Photo Credit – CDC PHIL     # 7620   Four years ago (2009), with the specter of the H1N1 pandemic looming, the state of New York...
Monday, October 29, 2012

CMAJ On Mandatory Flu Shot For HCWs

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Photo Credit – CDC PHIL # 6676   In an editorial today, the CMAJ ( Canadian Medical Association Journal ) endorsed requiring HCW...
Saturday, October 06, 2012

Rhode Island Adopts New Flu Vaccination Requirements For HCPs

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  HCW Flu Vaccine Survey – Credit MMWR   # 6611   Last week (Sept 28th) the CDC’s   MMWR carried a report on the level of season...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Lancet Perspective: Mandatory Flu Vaccination For HCWs

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    Photo Credit – CDC PHIL # 5709     A perspective appears today in The Lancet by Arthur Caplan , Ph.D., who is director o...
Friday, June 17, 2011

SHEA: Improving HCW Flu Vaccine Uptake

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    # 5635     Hospital acquired infections are the bane of modern health care, with MRSA, C. Diff , garden variety staph , variou...
Thursday, February 03, 2011

APIC Calls For Mandatory Flu Vaccination For HCWs

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    # 5282     APIC (the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. ) has joined the chorus of oth...
Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Mandatory HCW Vaccinations: The Survey Says . . .

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    # 4961     One of the most contentious subjects among Health Care Workers (HCWs) today is the growing move towards making annu...
Thursday, September 09, 2010

AAP: Recommends Mandatory Flu Vaccinations For HCWs

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    # 4887   The American Academy of Pediatrics is the latest professional medical organization to embrace the idea of making ye...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

SHEA: Mandatory Vaccination Of Health Care Workers

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      # 4855     The vaccination rate among health care workers (HCWs) against seasonal influenza runs abysmally under 50% , an...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Study: Mandatory Flu Vaccination Of HCWs

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  # 4781     Although some HCWs ( Health Care Workers ) object strenuously to such policies, the idea of mandating yearly flu vac...
Friday, July 16, 2010

IDSA Urges Mandatory Flu Vaccinations For Healthcare Workers

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  # 4731     A little over 3 weeks ago the CDC published their draft revised influenza infection control guidelines and requeste...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010

UK: HCWs `Professional Duty’ To Get Flu Jab

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    # 4702   There are few subjects that produce as much dissention and debate among healthcare workers as attempts to mandate va...