Elements of influenza vaccination programs that predict higher vaccination rates: Results of an emerging infections network survey

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-19

  Polgreen, Philip M ^a,b   Chen, Yiyi ^b   Beekmann, Susan ^a   Srinivasan, Arjun ^c   Neill, Marguerite A ^d   Gay, Ted ^e   Cavanaugh, Joseph E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^e Tri City Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; COVARIANCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DATA COLLECTION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MASS IMMUNIZATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39349104354     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/523586     Document Type: Article

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