Pandemic influenza vaccination: Will the health care system take its own medicine?

Australian Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 137-142

  Ferguson, Craig D ^a   Ferguson, Teagen E ^a   Golledge, Jonathan ^a   McBride, William J H ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cairns ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

H1N1; Pandemic influenza; Panvax; Seasonal influenza; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL;

EID: 77955232689     PISSN: 10385282     EISSN: 14401584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2010.01148.x     Document Type: Article

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