Reducing missed opportunities to vaccinate adults against influenza: What is realistic?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1633-1634

  Maurer, Jürgen ^a   Harris, Katherine M ^b   Lurie, Nicole ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349765123     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.287     Document Type: Letter

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