Volume 18, Number 8—August 2012
CME ACTIVITY
Vaccination of Health Care Workers to Protect Patients at Increased Risk for Acute Respiratory Disease
Gayle P. Dolan
, Rebecca C. Harris, Mandy Clarkson, Rachel Sokal, Gemma Morgan, Mitsuru Mukaigawara, Hiroshi Horiuchi, Rachel Hale, Laura Stormont, Laura Béchard-Evans, Yi-Sheng Chao, Sergey Eremin, Sara Martins, John S. Tam, Javier Peñalver, Arina Zanuzdana, and Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam
, Rebecca C. Harris, Mandy Clarkson, Rachel Sokal, Gemma Morgan, Mitsuru Mukaigawara, Hiroshi Horiuchi, Rachel Hale, Laura Stormont, Laura Béchard-Evans, Yi-Sheng Chao, Sergey Eremin, Sara Martins, John S. Tam, Javier Peñalver, Arina Zanuzdana, and Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-TamTable 1
Risk for bias assessed by using the Cochrane Collaboration tool in a review of the vaccination of health care workers to protect patients at risk for acute respiratory disease
| Study | Sequence generation | Allocation concealment |
Blinding of participants, personnel and outcome assessors
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Incomplete outcome data
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Selective outcome reporting | Other sources of bias | |||
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| Primary outcome | Secondary outcomes | Primary outcome | Secondary outcomes | ||||||
| Lemaitre et al. (26) | |||||||||
| Hayward et al. (27) | |||||||||
| Carman et al. (24) | |||||||||
| Potter et al. (25) | |||||||||
| Saito et al. (33) |
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| Oshitani et al. (28) | |||||||||
*Black shading, low risk of bias; light gray shading, uncertain risk of bias; dark gray shading, high risk of bias; blank cells, no secondary outcome measure reported.
