© 2001 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors at undue risk of infection. This duty is
most obvious and immediate when a physician is actually infected with a transmissible …

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. Florence
Nightingale ABSTRACT Ethical considerations from both the clinical and public health …

Influenza is a deadly disease. Every year, in the United States, 200,000 people are
hospitalized with influenza and 23,000–33,000 people die of the disease (Heron 2008) …

Health care institutions have paid increasing attention to preventing nosocomial
transmission of influenza through vaccination of health care personnel. While multifaceted …

The quotation from The Epidemics indicates that early Greek physicians had the dual
responsibilities of helping and not harming their patients. These responsibilities have …

Despite studies demonstrating that the annual influenza vaccination of health care workers
(HCWs) is associated with a reduction in morbidity and mortality among the patients they …

Health care worker (HCW) influenza vaccination rates are modest. This paper provides a
detailed ethical analysis of the major options to increase HCW vaccination rates, comparing …

(HCWs). The results are both revealing and worrisome. While 32 states have some type of
law concerning HCW immunization, these laws are rarely enforced and are outdated—only …

Ethical Aspects of Infection Control Page 1 Ethical Aspects of Infection Control Loreen A.
Herwaldt, MD This article describes ethical dilemmas faced routinely by infection control …

In “An Ethical Analysis of Mandatory Influenza Vaccination of Health Care Personnel:
Implementing Fairly and Balancing Benefits and Burdens,” Antommaria (2013) argues that …