Do laws bring children in child care centers up to date for immunizations?

Ambulatory Pediatrics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 154-157

  Kolasa, Maureen S ^a   Chilkatowsky, Andrew P ^b   Stevenson, John M ^a   Lutz, James P ^b   Watson, Barbara M ^b   Levenson, Robert ^b   Rosenthal, Jorge ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DIS CONTR AND PREV   (United States)

^b City of Philadelphia   (United States)

Author keywords

Day care centers; Health services; Immunization; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHICKENPOX; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIPHTHERIA; EXPOSURE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MEASLES; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MUMPS; NEWBORN; PARENT; PATIENT INFORMATION; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZATION; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUBELLA; TETANUS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 0038633233     PISSN: 15301567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1367/1539-4409(2003)003<0154:DLBCIC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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