Nudging healthcare workers: assessing the impact of pre-booked appointments on influenza vaccination uptake.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Influenza vaccination coverage among healthcare workers in Italy remains low compared with international benchmarks. Evidence on effective and scalable interventions in hospital settings is limited.

Methods

We conducted a clustered quasi-experimental study in a large Italian university hospital, comparing the 2024/25 campaign to 2023/24. Hospital cost centers (n = 277) were non-randomly allocated to intervention (personalized letter with a pre-scheduled on-site appointment; 130 centers, 2,967 healthcare workers) or control (standard information; 147 centers, 1,577 healthcare workers). Administrative records provided uptake. We estimated Difference-in-Differences models at the cost-center level, weighting by center size and clustering standard errors at cost

SUBMITTER: Daicampi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12678282 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature