Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals
Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals
The purpose of this study was to see if reminder letters and a large raffle prize would
 encourage health care workers to receive influenza vaccinations.
Eight hundred employees of an urban tertiary care hospital, 200 each from the following four
 categories: professional staff, resident physicians, registered nurses, and licensed
 practical nurses comprised the study group. Subjects were randomly assigned to receive: 1) no
 intervention, 2) a reminder letter for flu vaccine, 3) a raffle ticket to win a free
 Caribbean vacation with flu vaccine administration, or 4) both the reminder letter and raffle
 ticket. We compared the proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in
 the raffle across groups.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Hospital employees, staff physicians, residents, rn's, lpn's

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  non patient care hospital employees