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Conflicts of interest: This study was supported by an operating grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (No. IRR 96974). The study also received financial support from the Canadian Healthcare Influenza Immunization Network funded primarily by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (No. TPA 90189). J.C.K. is supported by a University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine Clinician Scientist Award. J.A.B. is supported by a Career Investigator Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
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- Health care workers, immunization and safety issues: Reflections from ItalyAmerican Journal of Infection ControlVol. 41Issue 7
- PreviewWe have read with interest the article by Quach et al,1 recently published in your authoritative journal. Many health care and public health organizations have introduced measures to encourage flu immunization coverage of health care workers (HCW), and some of them are implementing strategies in order to provide an adequate monitoring benchmarking. To the light of the importance of HCW in infectious disease control, we would like to take the opportunity to highlight the role of immunization, in different communicable disease, because we think that the efforts directed to flu should be combined to those directed to the prevention of others vaccine preventable disease.
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