March 21st, 2011

From the Pittsburgh Tribune Review:

“Two health systems — Excela Health in Westmoreland County and UPMC in Allegheny — are debating whether public health interests might outweigh the personal choice of health care workers. Two health systems in Philadelphia have made influenza vaccinations mandatory for their employees.

The benefits to patients are clear if health care workers get flu shots, maintains Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

‘If you can get close to 100 percent vaccination rates, you can cut patient death rates from flu by 40 percent,’ Caplan said.”

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