Programmatic factors related to smallpox vaccine uptake by healthcare workers and others

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2006 Nov;27(11):1242-5. doi: 10.1086/508834. Epub 2006 Oct 17.

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.

MeSH terms

  • Attitude of Health Personnel
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Immunization Programs / statistics & numerical data*
  • National Health Programs / organization & administration*
  • Personnel, Hospital
  • Program Evaluation*
  • Public Health Practice / statistics & numerical data*
  • Smallpox / prevention & control
  • Smallpox Vaccine / administration & dosage*
  • Treatment Refusal
  • United States
  • Vaccination / statistics & numerical data*

Substances

  • Smallpox Vaccine