Brief report: attitudes towards Covid-19 vaccination among hospital employees in a tertiary care university hospital in Germany in December 2020

Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination is essential to fight the pandemic. Health care workers (HCWs) are prioritized to get vaccinated, yet uptake of recommended vaccinations is known to be low in this group. In a tertiary care university hospital with a high number of Covid-19 patients in...

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Autores principales: Bauernfeind, Stilla, Hitzenbichler, Florian, Huppertz, Gunnar, Zeman, Florian, Koller, Michael, Schmidt, Barbara, Plentz, Annelie, Bauswein, Markus, Mohr, Arno, Salzberger, Bernd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8134963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34014530
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s15010-021-01622-9
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Sumario:Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination is essential to fight the pandemic. Health care workers (HCWs) are prioritized to get vaccinated, yet uptake of recommended vaccinations is known to be low in this group. In a tertiary care university hospital with a high number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care, 59.5% of surveyed staff (N = 2454) were willing to get vaccinated, 21.4% were unsure and 18.7% refused. Vaccine hesitancy was higher in female, younger and healthy employees without contact to Covid-19 patients; nurses (53.3%) were much less willing to get vaccinated compared to physicians (82.7%). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s15010-021-01622-9.

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