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Suboptimal COVID‐19 vaccine uptake among hospitalised patients: an opportunity to improve vulnerable, hard‐to‐reach population vaccine rates

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COVID‐19 vaccination represents a key preventative part of the Australian public health approach to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) pandemic. Hospital inpatients are frequently high risk for… Click to show full abstract

COVID‐19 vaccination represents a key preventative part of the Australian public health approach to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) pandemic. Hospital inpatients are frequently high risk for severe COVID‐19 and death. Anecdotes of high‐risk inpatients being unvaccinated and a lack of electronic medical record (EMR) visibility of COVID‐19 vaccination status prompted the present study as these patients could represent a risk to themselves, staff, other patients and service provision.

Keywords: vaccine uptake; uptake among; suboptimal covid; covid vaccine; vaccine; among hospitalised

Journal Title: Internal Medicine Journal
Year Published: 2022

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