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Controlling Varicella in the Healthcare Setting: Barriers to Varicella Vaccination Among Healthcare Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mahmooda Qureshi ,
Steven M. Gordon ,
Belinda Yen-Lieberman  and
David G. Litaker
Mahmooda Qureshi
Affiliation:
Department of General Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Steven M. Gordon*
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Belinda Yen-Lieberman
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
David G. Litaker
Affiliation:
Department of General Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
*
9500 Euclid Ave, Mailstop S32, Cleveland, OH 44195
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Abstract

We surveyed healthcare workers to determine factors that may influence acceptance of varicella-zoster virus vaccine. Of 2,801 workers tested, 90 were susceptible to varicella; of workers offered vaccination, 68% accepted. Workers providing direct patient care were 3.7-fold more likely than other workers to accept VZV vaccination (P=.04).

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 20 , Issue 7 , July 1999 , pp. 516 - 518
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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