Journal
VACCINE
Volume 26, Issue -, Pages D27-D30Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.07.068
Keywords
Bioethics; Vaccination policy; Professionalism
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [U19 C1000407]
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The threat of nosocomial transmission of seasonal flu is real and well documented. Despite decades of concerted and sustained efforts at voluntary vaccination, healthcare institutions have failed to achieve sustained high-level annual vaccination rates. By considering basic principles of biomedical ethics in which welfare concerns outweigh concerns about autonomy, and by examining the virtues of the heating professions and the derivative institutional obligations we argue that healthcare institutions have an obligation to achieve adequate vaccination rates including, if necessary, mandatory vaccination. We also discuss the practical implications of this argument for implementing such policies and touch on the potential that such policies have for future pandemic preparedness. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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