Synthesis Matrix 6-10

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Author/ Date	Aim of Study	Type of Literature/ Type of Method	Results/ Conclusion	Strengths/ Limitations	Thematic Codings	Setting/ Context
Lei, Y. (2015)	Examine the perceptions about what would happen if there were mandatory influenza vaccinations for healthcare workers.	Mixed methods and research.	There is a poor perception of influenza vaccine in general, but also in the heath care setting.	Only evaluation was done through online comments and news stories.	Concerns about freedom of choice, vaccine effectiveness, and patient safety.	Response to news stories and online comments.
Orenstein, W.A. (2013)	Determine strategies to promote influenza vaccine coverage for health care professionals as advised by the Healthy People 2020 campaign.	Expert opinion and research.	Influenza vaccination is  the most effective strategy at prevention, and there should be a program with incentives for health care workers.	Information advice comes from the National Vaccine Advisory Committee which has some biased towards getting health care workers vaccinated.	How to promote vaccinations among health care workers and improve vaccinations rates.	Review of information by the National Vaccine Advisory Committee.
Cortes-Penfield, N. (2014)	Explaining why a mandatory influenza vaccination for health care workers should be the standard of care because of matters regarding patient safety and nonmaleficence practice.	Expert opinion and research.	Opposition to mandatory influenza vaccinations remains high, even from government agencies like OSHA. However, there can be incentive programs.	This is an expert opinion based article of one person. So there is biased towards his opinion.	What the standard of care should be regarding mandatory influenza vaccination.	Expert opinion peer-reviewed article.
Kim, H. (2015)	Evaluating the 2012 Rhode Island health care worker influenza vaccination regulations: the implementation process and what the vaccination coverage was like.	Cross - sectional evaluation and survey.	More than 96.6% of employees did end up getting vaccinated with this implementation, the rest wore masks or were not allowed in certain areas of health care facilities.	Survey was in depth and data came from employee records which were electronically recorded so unable to be altered.	Implementations of influenza vaccination regulations for health care workers.	117 health care facilities in Rhode Island
Schmid, P. (2017)	Reviewing vaccination hesitancy from 2005-2016 in health care workers for the influenza vaccine	Cross - sectional evaluation and survey, and expert opinion.	There are barriers to certain risk groups preventing vaccination, but education and incentive programs raised vaccination rates for health care workers.	It is mostly a collection of data that is already out there, and not only focused on health care workers. Has a good conclusion of why people are hesitant for vaccinations and immunizations	Barriers to vaccination causing hesitance.	Data collected on hesitance and barriers for vaccination from 2005 - 2016.