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Healthcare Workers' Perceptions of Mandatory Vaccination: Results of an Anonymous Survey in a German University Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sabine Wicker ,
Georg Marckmann ,
Gregory A. Poland  and
Holger F. Rabenau
Sabine Wicker*
Affiliation:
Occupational Health Service, Hospital of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Georg Marckmann
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Ethics, University of Tuebingen, Tübingen, Germany
Gregory A. Poland
Affiliation:
Mayo Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota
Holger F. Rabenau
Affiliation:
Institute of Medical Virology, Hospital of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
*
Occupational Health Service, Hospital of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany (sabine.wicker@kgu.de)
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Despite decades of effort to encourage healthcare workers (HCWs) to be immunized, vaccination rates remain insufficient. Among German HCWs, 831 (68.4%) of 1,215 respondents supported mandatory vaccinations for HCWs in general. However, acceptance of mandatory vaccination varied significantly between physicians and nurses and also depended on the targeted disease.

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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 10 , October 2010 , pp. 1066 - 1069
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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