Influenza immunization coverage of residents and employees of long-term care facilities in New York State, 2000-2010

Person, Cara J.; Nadeau, Jessica A.; Schaffzin, Joshua K.; Pollock, Lynn; Wallace, Barbara J.; McNutt, Louise Anne; Blog, Debra

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2012.09.025

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“…Influenza vaccination, despite its moderate effectiveness (McLean et al, 2015), remains one important strategy for protecting vulnerable individuals and breaking the chains of transmission. With the shift of healthcare delivery from hospital/clinics to long term care facilities (LTCF), vaccination coverage of health care personnel (HCP) in the latter has become an emerging concern (Ofstead et al, 2017;Person et al, 2013).…”

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Differing pattern of influenza vaccination uptake in nurses between clinical and long term care facilities setting, 2014–2018

Wong

Lee

2018

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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Differing pattern of influenza vaccination uptake in nurses between clinical and long term care facilities setting, 2014–2018

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Lee

2018

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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“…Annual influenza vaccination remains the main strategy to prevent influenza illness, including among residents and staff in LTCF. 6 7 Shortcomings of vaccination include variable uptake, suboptimal vaccine effectiveness (VE) mostly due to mismatch of strains used in the vaccine and circulating strains and poor immune response among the elderly. In the 2014–2015 influenza season, little or no vaccine protection was observed overall, with adjusted VE against medically attended influenza A (H3N2) infection of −8% (95% CI −50% to 23%), consistent with vaccine strain mismatch.…”

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Evaluation of the use of oseltamivir prophylaxis in the control of influenza outbreaks in long-term care facilities in Alberta, Canada: a retrospective provincial database analysis

Jacobs

Khan

et al. 2016

BMJ Open

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ObjectivesTo evaluate the impact of oseltamivir prophylaxis in the management and control of influenza outbreaks in long-term care facilities in Alberta, Canada.Setting and participantsLong-term care facilities where 127 influenza outbreaks were reported to public health authorities in Alberta, Canada, during two influenza seasons from 2013 to 2015.Design and outcome measuresUsing routinely collected surveillance and administrative data, we examined the association between decision-making time for oseltamivir recommendation as prophylaxis strategy for influenza outbreaks in long-term care facilities (explanatory variable) and the duration of an influenza outbreak, the postprophylaxis risk of influenza-like illness and hospitalisation among residents of long-term care facilities in Alberta (outcome variables) using multivariable linear and Poisson regression models.ResultsOseltamivir prophylaxis decision-making time was positively associated with the postintervention duration of an outbreak, with a 1-day delay in making decision on oseltamivir prophylaxis associated with 2.22 (95% CI 1.37 to 3.06) more days of the duration of an outbreak after controlling for potential confounding effect of the number of residents at risk at intervention, outbreak progression time, prevalence of influenza-like illness during outbreak progression, facility location, presence of mixed strain and based on optimal timing of oseltamivir prophylaxis. Although not statistically significant, a 1-day delay in making decision on oseltamivir prophylaxis was associated with a 5% (95% CI −1% to 11%) increase in the postintervention risk of influenza-like illness, and a 6% (95% CI −8% to 22%) increase in the postintervention risk of hospitalisation after controlling for the same potential confounders.ConclusionsOur study demonstrated benefits of using oseltamivir prophylaxis to shorten the duration of influenza outbreaks; however, there were no significant differences in the influenza-like illness and hospitalisation risk occurring after the intervention. Surveillance data may offer means of rapid evaluation of oseltamivir prophylaxis in long-term care facilities as a public health measure.

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Umsetzung der Influenzaimpfempfehlung in Alten- und Pflegeheimen

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Wichmann

Mertens

et al. 2014

Bundesgesundheitsbl.

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Influenza immunization coverage of residents and employees of long-term care facilities in New York State, 2000-2010

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Differing pattern of influenza vaccination uptake in nurses between clinical and long term care facilities setting, 2014–2018

Differing pattern of influenza vaccination uptake in nurses between clinical and long term care facilities setting, 2014–2018

Evaluation of the use of oseltamivir prophylaxis in the control of influenza outbreaks in long-term care facilities in Alberta, Canada: a retrospective provincial database analysis

Umsetzung der Influenzaimpfempfehlung in Alten- und Pflegeheimen

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