Differences in attitudes, beliefs and knowledge of hospital health care workers and community doctors to vaccination of older people

Vaccine

Volumn 26, Issue 44, 2008, Pages 5633-5640

  Ridda, I ^a,b   Lindley, I R ^b   Gao, Z ^a,c   McIntyre, P ^a,b   MacIntyre, C R ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR IMMUNISATION RESEARCH AND SURVEILLANCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes to pneumococcal vaccine; Elderly patients; General physicians; Hospital health care workers; Vaccine barriers

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC OPINION; SELF REPORT; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VACCINATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

EID: 52949140635     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.07.070     Document Type: Article

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