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Missed Opportunity: The Unseen Driver for Low Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Rates in Underserved Patients
BACKGROUND: Vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus have been available since December 2020. Vaccination rates among hospitalized patients at our institution remained low at approximately 40%, thus we sought to understand the drivers of vaccine hesitancy i...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9384516/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36536667 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac326 |
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author | Campagnoli, Tania Mohan, Geetika Taddese, Nigist Santhiraj, Yaveen Margeta, Natasa Alvi, Saad Jabbar, Umair Bobba, Aniesh Alharash, Jihad Hoffman, Michael J |
author_facet | Campagnoli, Tania Mohan, Geetika Taddese, Nigist Santhiraj, Yaveen Margeta, Natasa Alvi, Saad Jabbar, Umair Bobba, Aniesh Alharash, Jihad Hoffman, Michael J |
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description | BACKGROUND: Vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus have been available since December 2020. Vaccination rates among hospitalized patients at our institution remained low at approximately 40%, thus we sought to understand the drivers of vaccine hesitancy in our patient population. METHODS: All unvaccinated adult patients admitted to our hospital were asked to participate in a survey to assess coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy. Updated vaccination status was collected at the end of the study. RESULTS: Ninety-seven patients agreed to participate, 34% of which were SARS-CoV-2 positive based on results from polymerase chain reaction tests. Of the 64 participants eligible to receive the vaccine, 57.8% were agreeable but only 27% received the vaccine before discharge. CONCLUSION: Many patients are willing to receive the vaccine, and hospitalization provides a unique opportunity to interact with patients who have been otherwise unaware, unable, or unwilling to pursue vaccination outside of the hospital. |
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spelling | pubmed-93845162022-08-18 Missed Opportunity: The Unseen Driver for Low Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Rates in Underserved Patients Campagnoli, Tania Mohan, Geetika Taddese, Nigist Santhiraj, Yaveen Margeta, Natasa Alvi, Saad Jabbar, Umair Bobba, Aniesh Alharash, Jihad Hoffman, Michael J Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report BACKGROUND: Vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus have been available since December 2020. Vaccination rates among hospitalized patients at our institution remained low at approximately 40%, thus we sought to understand the drivers of vaccine hesitancy in our patient population. METHODS: All unvaccinated adult patients admitted to our hospital were asked to participate in a survey to assess coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy. Updated vaccination status was collected at the end of the study. RESULTS: Ninety-seven patients agreed to participate, 34% of which were SARS-CoV-2 positive based on results from polymerase chain reaction tests. Of the 64 participants eligible to receive the vaccine, 57.8% were agreeable but only 27% received the vaccine before discharge. CONCLUSION: Many patients are willing to receive the vaccine, and hospitalization provides a unique opportunity to interact with patients who have been otherwise unaware, unable, or unwilling to pursue vaccination outside of the hospital. Oxford University Press 2022-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9384516/ /pubmed/36536667 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac326 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Campagnoli, Tania Mohan, Geetika Taddese, Nigist Santhiraj, Yaveen Margeta, Natasa Alvi, Saad Jabbar, Umair Bobba, Aniesh Alharash, Jihad Hoffman, Michael J Missed Opportunity: The Unseen Driver for Low Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Rates in Underserved Patients |
title | Missed Opportunity: The Unseen Driver for Low Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Rates in Underserved Patients |
title_full | Missed Opportunity: The Unseen Driver for Low Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Rates in Underserved Patients |
title_fullStr | Missed Opportunity: The Unseen Driver for Low Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Rates in Underserved Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Missed Opportunity: The Unseen Driver for Low Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Rates in Underserved Patients |
title_short | Missed Opportunity: The Unseen Driver for Low Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Rates in Underserved Patients |
title_sort | missed opportunity: the unseen driver for low coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination rates in underserved patients |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9384516/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36536667 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac326 |
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