Predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors influencing influenza vaccination acceptance among healthcare workers

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-77

  Bautista, Daniel ^a,b   Vila, Bernardo ^a   Usó, Ruth ^a   Téllez, María ^a   Zanón, Vicente ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR PESET   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPAIN; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VACCINATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SPAIN; VACCINATION;

EID: 33646450581     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499148     Document Type: Article

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