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REVUE DE MEDECINE INTERNE
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 5-9Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2005.09.007
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influenza vaccination; healthcare workers; nosocomial infection
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Background. - Influenza vaccination reduces the mortality of the patients when the vaccination rates of healthcare workers is important. Purpose and method of the study. - To investigate the vaccination rates at the Universitary Hospital of Besangon by anonymous questionnaire. Results. - Three thousand hundred seventy-seven answers were analyzed (228 men and 1145 women). Two hundred seventy-seven persons declared receiving the vaccine (20. 1 %) corresponding to sixty-three men (27.6%) and two hundred thirteen women (18.6%) (P = 0.00 1). The average age of the healthcare workers vaccined was of 38.9 +/- 11 years. Among most than 50 years, 34% was vaccined. Among the doctors, 40.5% were vaccined against 20.6% of the nurses. In the services of geriatrics, 78.5% of the staff was vaccined. Conclusions. - Our results indicate a weak rate of influenza vaccination in our establishment and a misunderstanding of the character nosocomial of the influenza among the nurse. (C) 2005 Elsevier SAS. Tous droits reserves.
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