Flu and COVID-19 Vaccination: What Happens to the Flu Shot When the Campaigns Overlap? Experience from a Large Italian Research Hospital
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion and Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Occupation | 2020/2021 | 2021/2022 | p-Value | ||
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Vaccinated (%) | Total | Vaccinated (%) | Total | ||
Physicians | 819 (75) | 1089 | 550 (38) | 1461 | <0.001 |
Nurses | 970 (48) | 2019 | 455 (20) | 2281 | <0.001 |
Other health workers | 881 (55) | 1603 | 264 (25) | 1337 | <0.001 |
Resident doctors | 687 (56) | 1229 | 471 (24) | 1969 | <0.001 |
Total health workers | 2556 (54) | 4685 | 1740 (25) | 7048 | <0.001 |
Administrative staff | 666 (54) | 1232 | 239 (20) | 1173 | <0.001 |
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Pascucci, D.; Nurchis, M.C.; Lontano, A.; Marziali, E.; Vetrugno, G.; Cambieri, A.; Moscato, U.; Di Pilla, A.; Damiani, G.; Laurenti, P. Flu and COVID-19 Vaccination: What Happens to the Flu Shot When the Campaigns Overlap? Experience from a Large Italian Research Hospital. Vaccines 2022, 10, 976. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10060976
Pascucci D, Nurchis MC, Lontano A, Marziali E, Vetrugno G, Cambieri A, Moscato U, Di Pilla A, Damiani G, Laurenti P. Flu and COVID-19 Vaccination: What Happens to the Flu Shot When the Campaigns Overlap? Experience from a Large Italian Research Hospital. Vaccines. 2022; 10(6):976. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10060976
Chicago/Turabian StylePascucci, Domenico, Mario Cesare Nurchis, Alberto Lontano, Eleonora Marziali, Giuseppe Vetrugno, Andrea Cambieri, Umberto Moscato, Andrea Di Pilla, Gianfranco Damiani, and Patrizia Laurenti. 2022. "Flu and COVID-19 Vaccination: What Happens to the Flu Shot When the Campaigns Overlap? Experience from a Large Italian Research Hospital" Vaccines 10, no. 6: 976. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10060976
APA StylePascucci, D., Nurchis, M. C., Lontano, A., Marziali, E., Vetrugno, G., Cambieri, A., Moscato, U., Di Pilla, A., Damiani, G., & Laurenti, P. (2022). Flu and COVID-19 Vaccination: What Happens to the Flu Shot When the Campaigns Overlap? Experience from a Large Italian Research Hospital. Vaccines, 10(6), 976. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10060976