Protecting patients: Study shows that Johns Hopkins flu vaccination rates twice national average
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 15:28
in Health & Medicine
A campaign that makes seasonal flu vaccinations for hospital staff free, convenient, ubiquitous and hard to ignore succeeds fairly well in moving care providers closer to a state of "herd" immunity and protecting patients from possible infection transmitted by health care workers, according to results of a survey at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.