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House Staff Attitudes About Influenza Vaccination After Participation in a Clinical Trial to Improve Vaccination of Hospital Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Javier Cabello ,
Krishna Das ,
William E. Trick ,
Mary N. Gerard  and
Marjorie Charles-Damte
Javier Cabello
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, ChicagoIllinois
Krishna Das
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, ChicagoIllinois Cook County Hospital, and, Rush Medical College, Department of Medicine, ChicagoIllinois
William E. Trick*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, ChicagoIllinois Cook County Hospital, and, Rush Medical College, Department of Medicine, ChicagoIllinois
Mary N. Gerard
Affiliation:
Hospital Information Systems, ChicagoIllinois
Marjorie Charles-Damte
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, ChicagoIllinois
*
Collaborative Research Unit, Department of Medicine, 1900 W. Polk St., Suite 1600, Chicago, IL 60660 (wtrick@cchil.org)
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Abstract

We surveyed house staff who had participated in a trial that compared influenza vaccination strategies for inpatients. House staff who were exposed to computer-generated vaccination orders were more likely to report that they recommended vaccination to their inpatients and outpatients, compared with house staff who were not exposed to a vaccination intervention. Also, house staff did not recognize regnant women as a high-priority population for influenza vaccination.

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , February 2008 , pp. 174 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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