Breaking Through the Status Quo: Improving Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Health-Care Personnel

摘要

No one wq.nts to be admitted to a health-care facility, but when it is necessary, every patient expects to receive the highest quality care possible. Too often, however, admission leads to harm, not health. At any given time, one out of every 20 patients has an infection related to their hospital stay.1 Such has been the case for far too long. The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 has brought not only a heightened commitment to better systems of health-care infection prevention, but also new tools and resources to improve quality of care and protect patients.