Smallpox vaccination: A national survey of emergency health care providers

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 606-611

  Everett, Worth W ^a,b   Coffin, Susan E ^b,c,d   Zaoutis, Theoklis ^b,c,d   Halpern, Scott D ^b   Strom, Brian L ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Bioterrorism; Health care providers; Smallpox; Survey; Vaccine; Vaccinia

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SMALLPOX; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VACCINATION REACTION;

EID: 0038277497     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2003.tb00043.x     Document Type: Review

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