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ID (ISN) del documento57367
Número CIS 92-148
ISSN - Título de la serie 0096-1736 - Journal of Occupational Medicine
Año 1991
Número de serie
Autor(es) Harris A.A., Daly-Gawenda D., Hudson E.K.
Título Vaccine choice and program participation rates when two hepatitis B vaccines are offered
Información bibliográfica July 1991, Vol.33, No.7, p.804-807. 13 ref.
Resumen Participation rates of health care workers in voluntary free hepatitis B virus immunisation programmes are 35% to 40%. University teaching hospital employees at risk for hepatitis B virus and presenting for immunisation were surveyed as to vaccine preference. Both plasma-derived and recombinant hepatitis B virus vaccines were available. During a 10-month period, 173 health care workers enrolled in the study. One hundred seventeen received recombinant vaccine, and 56 received plasma-derived vaccine; 66 were immunised post-exposure. Concern of a relationship of human immunodeficiency virus to hepatitis B virus plasma-derived vaccine was acknowledged by a small number of health care workers as important in vaccine selection. Recombinant hepatitis B virus vaccine rapidly and substantially supplanted plasma-derived vaccine but did not increase programme participation. It is suspected that mandatory immunisation or proof of immunity will be necessary if hepatitis B virus protection rates in health care workers are to improve.
Descriptores (primarios) vacunas; programas de higiene; inmunización; personal de los servicios de salud; hepatitis vírica
Descriptores (secundarios) plasma sanguíneo; síndrome de inmunodeficiencia; Estados Unidos
Tipo de documento D - Artículos periódicos
País / Estado o ProvinciaEstados Unidos
Tema(s) Medicina del trabajo, higiene, primeros auxilios
Broad subject area(s) Medicina del trabajo, epidemiología
Navegación por categoria(s) Liver diseases
Viral diseases (other than aids)
Health care services
Workplace health promotion
Bacterial and parasitic diseases