Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Health Care Professionals

The Cleveland Clinic800 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

ECT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

800

Conditions

Influenza

Interventions

influenza vaccine, reminders letters, raffle prizeBEHAVIORAL

Eligibility

Sex: ALLHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Hospital employees, staff physicians, residents, rn's, lpn's Exclusion Criteria: * non patient care hospital employees

Locations (1)

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Proportion of employees receiving vaccination and participating in the raffle across groups.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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