Journal article
Vaccines mandates for healthcare workers beyond COVID-19
- Abstract:
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We provide ethical criteria to establish when vaccine mandates for healthcare workers are ethically justifiable. The relevant criteria are: the utility of the vaccine for healthcare workers, the utility for patients (both in terms of prevention of transmission of infection and reduction in staff shortage), and the existence of less restrictive alternatives that can achieve comparable benefits. Health care workers have professional obligations to promote the interests of patients that ent...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Medical Ethics Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2022-05-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-04-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1473-4257
- ISSN:
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0306-6800
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1250653
- Local pid:
- pubs:1250653
- Deposit date:
- 2022-04-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Giubilini et al
- Copyright date:
- 2022
- Rights statement:
- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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