Healthcare workers and influenza vaccination Commentary on Canning HS, Phillips J & Allsup S (2005) Healthcare workers beliefs about influenza vaccine and the reasons for non-vaccination - a cross-sectional survey. Journal of Clinical Nursing 14, 922-925

Comments on research by Canning, H et. al., on reasons given by nurses and health care assistants in 2 Liverpool hospitals for their decision not to get an influenza vaccination. The commentary focuses on the evidence given for the benefits of vaccination and considers whether the quantitative research methodology adequately identified all factors likely to affect immunisation uptake. [(BNI unique abstract)] 28 references