Practice nurses best protect the vaccine cold chain in general practice

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 35-39

  Carr, Christine ^a   Byles, Julie ^b   Durrheim, David ^c  

^a Area Immunisation Coordinator   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

General practice; General practice nurse; Hunter; Immunisation; Vaccine cold chain; Vaccine storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449174825     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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