Incidence and recall of influenza in a cohort of Glasgow healthcare workers during the 1993-4 epidemic: Results of serum testing and questionnaire
Incidence and recall of influenza in a cohort of Glasgow healthcare workers during the 1993-4 epidemic: Results of serum testing and questionnaire
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DOI：
10.1136/bmj.313.7067.1241
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发表时间：
1996-11-16
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Carman, WF
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作者：
Elder, AG;ODonnell, B;Carman, WF
美国疾病控制和预防中心提倡所有接触易感患者的医护人员每年接种流感疫苗。 1 然而，英国卫生部门建议仅对有风险因素的人进行免疫接种。 2 几乎没有证据支持或反驳针对此类医护人员的免疫接种政策，而且，尽管有流感爆发的记录，但缺乏有关医护人员流感的流行病学数据。我们的主要目的是确定一组医护人员的流感发病率。由于预防交叉感染是支持医护人员免疫的主要论据之一，我们还通过将疾病回忆与血清学结果联系起来估计了无症状感染的比例。
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advocate annual influenza immunisation for all healthcare workers in contact with vulnerable patients. 1 The health departments in the United Kingdom, however, advise immunising only people with risk factors. 2 Little evidence exists to support or refute a policy of immunisation for such healthcare workers, and, although influenza outbreaks have been documented, epidemiological data concerning influenza in healthcare workers are lacking. We aimed principally to determine the incidence of influenza in a cohort of healthcare workers. As prevention of cross infection is one of the main arguments in favour of immunisation of healthcare workers, we also estimated the proportion of asymptomatic infection by linking recall of illness with serological results.