Influenza vaccination rates and motivators among healthcare worker groups

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 171-177

  Christini, Amanda Banks ^a   Shutt, Kathleen A ^b   Byers, Karin E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; MALE; MOTIVATION; NURSES; NURSES' AIDES; PHYSICIANS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 33847699413     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511796     Document Type: Article

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