Modeling the effects of influenza vaccination of health care workers in hospital departments

C. van den Dool; M. J. M. Bonten; E. Hak; J. Wallinga

doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.07.104

Modeling the effects of influenza vaccination of health care workers in hospital departments

C. van den Dool^*, M. J. M. Bonten, E. Hak, J. Wallinga

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Abstract

Nowadays health care worker (HCW) vaccination is widely recommended. Although the benefits of this strategy have been demonstrated in long-term care settings, no studies have been performed in regular hospital departments. We adapt a previously developed model of influenza transmission in a long-term care nursing home department to study the effects of HCW vaccination in hospital wards. We study both the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing the hazard rates of influenza virus infection for patients. Most scenarios under study show a similar or higher impact of hospital HCW vaccination than has been predicted for the long-term care nursing home department. Therefore, it seems justified to extend the recommendations for HCW vaccination, based on results in the long-term care setting, to short-term care settings as well. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6261-6267
Number of pages	7
Journal	Vaccine
Volume	27
Issue number	44
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.07.104
Publication status	Published - 19-Oct-2009

Keywords

Health care worker vaccination
Hospital
Mathematical model
LONG-TERM-CARE
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL
MATHEMATICAL-MODEL
ELDERLY-PEOPLE
TRANSMISSION
INFECTION
RECOMMENDATIONS
TUBERCULOSIS
UNCERTAINTY
SENSITIVITY

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