Preparedness for a smallpox outbreak: Comparing metrics for assessing levels of vaccination among health-care workers by state

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 622-633

  Bass, S B ^a   Ruzek, S B ^a   Gordon, T F ^a   Hanlon, A L ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METRIC SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; SMALLPOX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

BIOTERRORISM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VACCINE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 34247512063     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268806007229     Document Type: Article

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