Do declination statements increase health care worker influenza vAccination Rates?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 773-779

  Talbot, Thomas R ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS; VACCINATION;

EID: 70149119706     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/605554     Document Type: Review

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