Highlights
- •Older adults are at high risk for influenza and are more likely to develop serious complications.
- •Influenza vaccination of healthcare workers can help protect older patients from acute respiratory disease.
- •Influenza vaccination among home health care workers are suboptimal.
- •Home health care agencies with influenza vaccination requirements had higher influenza vaccination rates.
- •Home health care agency's influenza vaccination policies are associated with reduced respiratory infection-related hospitalization among older patients.
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Conflicts of interest: None to report.
Funding: This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health: National Institute of Nursing Research and the Office of the Director (R01NR016865) and the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation (AHHQI).
