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Programmatic Factors Related to Smallpox Vaccine Uptake by Healthcare Workers and Others

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Megan C. Lindley ,
Pascale M. Wortley ,
Carla A. Winston  and
Benjamin Schwartz
Megan C. Lindley*
Affiliation:
Immunization Services, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Pascale M. Wortley
Affiliation:
Immunization Services, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Carla A. Winston
Affiliation:
Immunization Services, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Benjamin Schwartz
Affiliation:
Epidemiology and Surveillance Divisions, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Immunization Services Division, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop E-52, Atlanta, GA30333 ([email protected])
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Abstract

We surveyed program coordinators at 106 hospitals and health departments that participated in the National Smallpox Vaccination Program to ascertain how program-level factors affected the rate of smallpox vaccine uptake by staff. In a fully adjusted multivariate model, health departments achieved significantly higher vaccination rates than did hospitals, as did facilities that invited fewer employees to be vaccinated.

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 11 , November 2006 , pp. 1242 - 1245
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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