Allocating pandemic influenza vaccines in Minnesota: Recommendations of the Pandemic Influenza Ethics Work Group

Vaccine

Volumn 25, Issue 35, 2007, Pages 6522-6536

  Vawter, Dorothy E ^a   Gervais, Karen G ^a   Garrett, J Eline ^a  

^a Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Pandemic influenza; Rationing; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; PANDEMIC; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA ETHICS WORK GROUP; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; UNITED STATES;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FORECASTING; GOALS; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HERD; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MINNESOTA; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK; VIRUS SHEDDING;

EID: 34547601569     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.05.057     Document Type: Article

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