Getting the timing right- Is it worthwhile to vaccinate long-stay hospital inpatients to prevent influenza?

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J Hosp Infect. 2019 Sep 11. pii: S0195-6701(19)30366-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2019.09.006. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Getting the timing right- Is it worthwhile to vaccinate long-stay hospital inpatients to prevent influenza?[/h] Skelly E[SUP]1[/SUP], Skally M[SUP]2[/SUP], Foley M[SUP]2[/SUP], Gaughan L[SUP]3[/SUP], Duffy F[SUP]4[/SUP], Burns K[SUP]5[/SUP], Humphreys H[SUP]6[/SUP], Fitzpatrick F[SUP]6[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h] 1 Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Electronic address: emmaskelly@rcsi.ie. 2 Department of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. 3 Department of Pharmacy, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. 4 Infection Prevention and Control Department, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. 5 Department of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland. 6 Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Seasonal influenza; influenza cross-transmission; influenza vaccination; long-stay hospital patients; long-stay inpatients

PMID: 31520654 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2019.09.006