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| Ranking |
Evidence-Based Practice |
| Description |
Interventions to increase uptake of flu vaccines in healthcare workers (HCW) involve making vaccines available to workers and announcing this availability using things such as newsletters, e-mails, or paycheck inserts.
Vaccines may be offered:
• On-site or off-site
• At cost, reduced cost, or no cost
• With health education and mobile units
• In clinics
• At multiple locations
The Task Force on Community Preventive Services recommends interventions with on-site, free, and actively promoted influenza vaccinations, when implemented alone or as part of a multicomponent intervention, based on strong evidence of their effectiveness in increasing influenza vaccination coverage among healthcare workers when implemented alone or as part of a multicomponent intervention. |
| Results / Accomplishments |
Results from the Systematic Review:
Forty-five studies qualified for the review and examined changes in vaccination coverage, changes in influenza cases, or worker productivity.
• Change in vaccination coverage: median increase of 21.0 percentage points (interquartile interval: 11 to 34 percentage points; 41 studies)
• Change in influenza cases:
- Among patients: median relative decrease of 11.3% (3 studies)
- Nosocomial infections (acquired during visits to hospitals or other healthcare settings): median relative decrease of 78.0% (4 studies)
• Change in worker productivity was not reported in the qualifying studies.
• All 45 studies evaluated interventions with free, on-site, actively promoted influenza vaccinations alone and when combined with additional interventions including provision of information, efforts to enhance access, activities to change attitudes and norms, and policy changes.
• Studies evaluated interventions conducted in medium and large hospitals, and in long-term care facilities.
• Studies were conducted mostly in the United States, Europe, and Canada; however, the body of evidence included studies from Singapore, Brazil, South Korea, and Australia. |
| Categories |
Health / Immunizations & Infectious Diseases
Health / Access to Health Services
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| Source |
Community Guide Branch Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Location |
Country: USA |
| Primary Contact |
communityguide@cdc.gov
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| For more details |
http://www.thecommunityguide.org/index.html#topics
http://www.thecommunityguide.org/worksite/flu-h...
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| Target Audience |
Adults |
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