Mandatory influenza immunisation of health-care workers.

摘要

Seasonal influenza imposes an enormous but poorly defined burden of excess deaths, hospital admissions, and health-care costs, and often spreads within healthcare facilities. Hospital patients with influenza are a potential source of infection for health-care workers that are not immunised, with attack rates among health-care workers of lS-24%- Unfortunately, health-care workers infected with influenza often continue to work, despite symptoms, with potentially devastating consequences for high-risk patients, including those who are very young, elderly, or immunocompromised-for example, patients receiving bone-marrow transplants have a high risk of pneumonia and death from influenza.