Abstract
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends annual influenza vaccination for all health care personnel to reduce influenza-related morbidity and mortality among both health care personnel and their patients (1-4). To estimate influenza vaccination coverage among U.S. health care personnel for the 2015-16 influenza season, CDC conducted an opt-in Internet panel survey of 2,258 health care personnel during March 28-April 14, 2016. Overall, 79.0% of survey participants reported receiving an influenza vaccination during the 2015-16 season, similar to the 77.3% coverage reported for the 2014-15 season (5). Coverage in long-term care settings increased by 5.3 percentage points compared with the previous season. Vaccination coverage continued to be higher among health care personnel working in hospitals (91.2%) and lower among health care personnel working in ambulatory (79.8%) and long-term care settings (69.2%). Coverage continued to be highest among physicians (95.6%) and lowest among assistants and aides (64.1%), and highest overall among health care personnel who were required by their employer to be vaccinated (96.5%). Among health care personnel working in settings where vaccination was neither required, promoted, nor offered onsite, vaccination coverage continued to be low (44.9%). An increased percentage of health care personnel reporting a vaccination requirement or onsite vaccination availability compared with earlier influenza seasons might have contributed to the overall increase in vaccination coverage during the past 6 influenza seasons.
Highlights
Coverage findings from Internet survey panels have differed from populationbased estimates from the National Health Interview Survey in past influenza seasons [8,9]. These limitations might affect the representativeness of these findings to the U.S population of health care personnel [10]
Health care personnel working in long-term care settings had the largest increase in vaccination coverage; despite these increases, this group continues to have the lowest levels of coverage
These limitations might affect the representativeness of these findings to the U.S population of health care personnel [10]
Summary
Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Health Care Personnel — United States, 2015–16 Influenza Season. MD1; Peng-Jun Lu, MD, PhD1; Charles DiSogra, DrPH6; Rebecca Devlin, MA6; Deborah K. To estimate influenza vaccination coverage among U.S health care personnel for the 2015–16 influenza season, CDC conducted an opt-in Internet panel survey of 2,258 health care personnel during March 28–April 14, 2016. 79.0% of respondents reported having received an influenza vaccination during the 2015–16 season, an increase of 15.5 percentage points compared with the 2010–11 season estimate, but similar to the 77.3% coverage estimate reported in the 2014–15 season (Figure) (Table 1). Percentage of health care personnel who reported receiving influenza vaccination, by work setting*,†,§ and occupation type,¶ ,**, ††, §§ — Internet panel surveys, United States, 2010–11 through 2015–16 influenza seasons coverage in the 2015–16 season was similar to coverage in the 2014–15 season (Figure). During the 2015–16 influenza season, vaccination coverage was 96.5% among health care personnel working in settings where vaccination was required (Table 2). 37.8% of surveyed health care personnel were required to be vaccinated against influenza, All health care facilities
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