Influenza vaccination rates, feedback, and the hawthorne effect [1]

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 98-99

  Polgreen, Philip M ^a   Pottinger, Jean ^b   Polgreen, Linnea A ^c   Diekema, Daniel J ^a,b,d   Herwaldt, Loreen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HAWTHORNE EFFECT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LETTER; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

COMMUNICATION; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; IOWA; VACCINATION;

EID: 33646454467     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499393     Document Type: Letter

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