Pertussis immunization in paediatric healthcare workers: Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviour

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2169-2173

  Top, Karina A ^a   Halperin, Beth A ^a   Baxendale, Darlene ^a   MacKinnon Cameron, Donna ^a   Halperin, Scott A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Healthcare worker; Pertussis; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INJECTION SITE EROSION; INJECTION SITE ERYTHEMA; INJECTION SITE SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE ATTITUDE; OPEN STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEDIATRICS; PERTUSSIS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TETANUS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; VACCINATION; WHOOPING COUGH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77049092221     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.12.060     Document Type: Article

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