No right-thinking physician would ever knowingly harm a patient or fail to do some essential
thing that would result in harm to a patient. This principle of medical practice is enshrined in …

HEALTH POLICY AND ETHICS indirectly benefits patients by decreasing their chance of
being infected. 1 There are also very few risks associated with influenza vaccination, with …

In this paper we outline the seven primary truths supporting the call for requiring influenza
immunization of all health care workers. We view this as a serious patient safety issue, given …

Health care workers (HCWs) who have contact with patients have an increased risk of
exposure to vaccinepreventable diseases and of spreading those diseases to vulnerable …

The general requirement for informed consent for medical treatment notwithstanding, the
government's authority to require vaccination was established in the US Supreme Court in …

(HCWs). The results are both revealing and worrisome. While 32 states have some type of
law concerning HCW immunization, these laws are rarely enforced and are outdated—only …

A growing body of literature defends the efficacy of seasonal influenza vaccination for health
care workers in reducing the mortality of hospitalized patients. I review the evidence …

Influenza is a deadly disease. Every year, in the United States, 200,000 people are
hospitalized with influenza and 23,000–33,000 people die of the disease (Heron 2008) …

Vidant Health is a health care system comprising many physician practices, 9 hospitals, and
an academic medical center affiliated with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina …

Influenza vaccine is effective at preventing influenza in healthy young adults.[1] The strategy
to encourage influenza vaccination for health care workers is partly based on the simple …