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Worldwide, vaccine coverage against influenza among healthcare workers (HCWs) doesn’t reach the expected goals season after season. In 2009, during the influenza emerging pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) emitted the recommendation for applying the vaccine against influenza H1N1 to all HCWs. Despite these recommendations the reports of covertures were of 34% in United States and, although there was a greater coverage in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) it didn’t exceed 50%.1 Following the recommendations of the WHO, Mexico considered HCWs a priority group for receiving the vaccine. To determine the coverage of the 2009 pandemic monovalent influenza AH1N1 vaccine in the UCI and Emergency Department (ED) HCWs, a crosssectional study was performed during the months of August and September 2010 in the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ), which included all attending physicians and residents, nurses, respiratory technicians and administration personnel. Also it was sought to identify the factors associated with the vaccination rate and to describe the reasons why HCWs don’t apply the vaccines.

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Vol. 63 Núm.5. Septiembre-Octubre 2011 Pags. 547-548 Rev Invest Clin 2011; 63(5-ENGLISH)