Emergency physicians' perspectives on smallpox vaccination

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 599-605

  Kwon, Nancy ^a   Raven, Maria C ^a,d   Chiang, William K ^a   Moran, Gregory J ^b   Jui, Jon ^c   Carter, Richard A ^a   Goldfrank, Lewis ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Apartment 4N ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bioterrorism; Emergency physicians; Smallpox; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; ECZEMA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLICY; POSTVACCINAL ENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SMALLPOX; VACCINATION; VACCINATION REACTION; VACCINIA;

EID: 0038616411     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2003.tb00042.x     Document Type: Review

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