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CRISTINA MORENO W. JAVIER TENORIO P. SILVANA GATICA Q. HUGO SANCHEZ R.

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Acute Respiratory Disease (ARD) is an important cause of sickness leave during winter-time. This fact gets more importance as it affects health care personnel, who had to face an increased requirement of people asking for health care during this period of the year. These facts are the rationale for enforcing influenza vaccination in the health care personnel (HCP). This is a cohort-study developed during the year 2000, in HCP that works at Santiago's South East Health Service. It aims to show if there is any difference between ARD's incidence in people who were vaccinated and people who were not. 3.479 people received the influenza vaccination (G1) and 272 did not (G2). 644 ARD events were registered. These events were codified according to the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-X). This include codes J00 to J22 (acute respiratory infections), J45 (asthma) and H67 (acute otitis). Results showed a lower influenza incidence in G1 than in G2 (RR 0.13; CI 95%: 0.086 - 0.203). Non influenza-ARD showed a lower incidence in G1 compared to G2 either. As it was expected, vaccination protects HCP from influenza. Besides, we observed a significant decrease in non-ARD incidence in HCP who received influenza vaccination

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MORENO W., C., TENORIO P., J., GATICA Q., S., & SANCHEZ R., H. (2002). INCIDENCE OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISEASE AMONG HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL WITH AND WITHOUT INfLUENZA VACCINATION. Revista Chilena De Enfermedades Respiratorias, 18(1), 14–21. Retrieved from https://revchilenfermrespir.cl/index.php/RChER/article/view/762