TY - JOUR
T1 - Influenza vaccination among healthcare workers in Italy
T2 - The experience of a large tertiary acute-care teaching hospital
AU - Alicino, Cristiano
AU - Iudici, Rocco
AU - Barberis, Ilaria
AU - Paganino, Chiara
AU - Cacciani, Roberto
AU - Zacconi, Monica
AU - Battistini, Angela
AU - Bellina, Dorotea
AU - Di Bella, Anna Maria
AU - Talamini, Antonella
AU - Sticchi, Laura
AU - Morando, Alessandra
AU - Ansaldi, Filippo
AU - Durando, Paolo
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Influenza vaccination is a fundamental tool for the prevention of influenza in healthcare settings and its administration to healthcare workers (HCWs) is recommended in more than 40 countries including United States of America and many countries of the European Union. Despite these recommendations, the compliance of HCWs to influenza vaccination is largely inadequate in Italy. Since 2005/06 season, a comprehensive multifaceted intervention project aimed at increasing the seasonal influenza vaccination coverage rates among HCWs was performed at the IRCCS AOU San Martino IST teaching hospital in Genoa, Italy, the regional tertiary adult acute-care reference center with a 1300 bed capacity. Despite almost a decade of efforts, the vaccination coverage rates registered at our hospital steadily remain unsatisfactory and very distant by the minimum objective of 75% defined by the Italian Ministry of Health. During the last influenza season (2013/14), vaccination coverage rates by occupation type resulted 30% among physicians, 11% among nurses and 9% among other clinical personnel. Further efforts are necessary to prevent the transmission of influenza to patient and novel strategies need to be identified and implemented in order to increase the compliance of HCWs, particularly nurses, with the seasonal influenza vaccination.
AB - Influenza vaccination is a fundamental tool for the prevention of influenza in healthcare settings and its administration to healthcare workers (HCWs) is recommended in more than 40 countries including United States of America and many countries of the European Union. Despite these recommendations, the compliance of HCWs to influenza vaccination is largely inadequate in Italy. Since 2005/06 season, a comprehensive multifaceted intervention project aimed at increasing the seasonal influenza vaccination coverage rates among HCWs was performed at the IRCCS AOU San Martino IST teaching hospital in Genoa, Italy, the regional tertiary adult acute-care reference center with a 1300 bed capacity. Despite almost a decade of efforts, the vaccination coverage rates registered at our hospital steadily remain unsatisfactory and very distant by the minimum objective of 75% defined by the Italian Ministry of Health. During the last influenza season (2013/14), vaccination coverage rates by occupation type resulted 30% among physicians, 11% among nurses and 9% among other clinical personnel. Further efforts are necessary to prevent the transmission of influenza to patient and novel strategies need to be identified and implemented in order to increase the compliance of HCWs, particularly nurses, with the seasonal influenza vaccination.
KW - Healthcare workers
KW - Immunization
KW - Influenza
KW - Vaccine
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U2 - 10.4161/hv.34362
DO - 10.4161/hv.34362
M3 - Article
C2 - 25483521
AN - SCOPUS:84949116811
VL - 11
SP - 95
EP - 100
JO - Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics
JF - Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics
SN - 2164-5515
IS - 1
ER -