First Do No Harm: Ensuring That Healthcare Workers Vaccinate and Are Vaccinated

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 799-800

  Nichol, Kristin L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ATTITUDE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; VACCINATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN;

EID: 0344307481     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502139     Document Type: Editorial

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