Resource Center
Keeping Up
Below are a few suggestions on how you can stay current.
- Subscribe to pertinent list-servs (More Information)
- Monitor the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Website. (Visit Website)
- Return to this online resource center (www.YouCanStopTheFlu.com) for updates.
- AHFS Drug Information monograph for seasonal influenza vaccine – Intranasal | Parenteral
- 2011 ACIP Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines (Visit Website)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Visit Website)
- Flu.gov – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Interagency Public Affairs Group on Influenza Preparedness and Response. One-stop access to U.S. government influenza information. (Visit Website)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Influenza Vaccination Week. December 4-10, 2011. (Visit Website)
- Immunization Action Coalition (Visit Website)
- National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (Visit Website)
- ASHP Influenza Resource Center (View Website)
- Excerpt from Chapter 14: "A Community Pharmacy Influenza Vaccination Service" in the book Pharmacy in Public Health (Download PDF) Visit ASHP Bookstore
- Influenza Vaccination of Health-Care Personnel: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) (Visit Website)
- Influenza vaccination coverage among health-care personnel – United States, 2010-11 influenza season (Visit Website)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevention Strategies for Seasonal Influenza in Healthcare Settings (Visit Website)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Expert Commentary: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases – Roll Up Your Sleeves! Medscape Medical News. (View Video, registration required)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Fact Sheet: Seasonal Influenza Vaccination – Important Protection for Healthcare Workers (Download PDF)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Infection Control in Health Care Facilities (Visit Website)
- National Influenza Vaccine Summit (Co-sponsored by the American Medical Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Influenza - prevent a bad disease with a good vaccine! (Visit Website)
- National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Immunizing healthcare personnel against influenza: a report on best practices. (Download PDF)
- National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Influenza immunization among health care personnel: call to action. (Download PDF)
- National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Improving influenza vaccination rates in health care workers: strategies to increase protection for workers and patients. (Download PDF)
- Public Health Agency of Canada. Health professionals: Protect yourself. Protect your patients. Get the flu shot (Visit Website)
- The Joint Commission Flu Vaccination Challenge. (Visit Website)
- American Academy of Pediatrics. Policy Statement–Recommendation for Mandatory Influenza Immunization of All Health Care Personnel (Visit Website)
- American College of Physicians – Infectious Diseases Society of America. ACP-IDSA Joint Statement of Medical Societies Regarding Adult Vaccination by Physicians. (Download PDF)
- American College of Physicians – American Society of Internal Medicine. Pharmacist Scope of Practice. (Download PDF, subscription required)
- American College of Physicians. ACP policy on influenza vaccination of health care workers. (Download PDF)
- ASHP Policy 0615: Influenza Vaccination Requirements To Advance Patient Safety And Public Health (Visit Website)
- ASHP Policy 0601: Universal Influenza Vaccination (Visit Website)
- ASHP Policy 0213: Pharmacists' Role In Immunization And Vaccines (Visit Website)
- ASHP Guidelines on the Pharmacist's Role in Immunization(Download PDF)
- ASHP Position on Mandatory Influenza Immunization of Health Care Workers (letter to The Joint Commission) (Download PDF)
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC): Position Paper: Influenza Immunization of Healthcare Personnel (Visit Website)
- Infectious Diseases Society of America: Policy on Mandatory Immunization of Health Care Workers Against Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza. (Download PDF)
- National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Call to Action (Download PDF)
- Infectious Diseases Society of America. Pandemic and seasonal influenza: principles for U.S. action. (Download PDF)
- National Patient Safety Foundation. Position Statement: NPSF Supports Mandatory Flu Vaccinations for Healthcare Workers (Visit Website)
- Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Revised SHEA Position Paper: Influenza Vaccination of Healthcare Personnel. (Visit Website)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tiered use of inactivated influenza vaccine in the event of a vaccine shortage. MMWR. 2005 Aug 5; 54:749-50. (Full text + references) (Visit Website)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Current vaccine shortages & delays. (Visit Website)
- ASHP Drug Shortages Resource Center (View Website)
- Immunization Action Coalition. IAC Express. Weekly email; immunization information for health professionals (Visit Website)
- Department of Defense Military Vaccine Agency. Immunization University (Visit Website)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provider Immunization Education (Visit Website)
- Immunization information for Washington State Community Partners & Healthcare Providers. (Visit Website)
- Pharmacy-Immunization Net (PI-Net). For pharmacists involved with immunization advocacy, PI-Net is moderated by John D. Grabenstein, a leader in vaccine advocacy. PI-Net is dedicated to the protection of all Americans from vaccine-preventable diseases. To subscribe, send a message with 'subscribe pi-net firstname lastname to listserv@unc.edu. Leave the subject field blank. To send or post a message to the PI-Net list, send your message to pi-net@listserv.unc.edu.
