Changing attitudes toward influenza vaccination in U.S. kidney transplant programs over the past decade

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1637-1641

  Chon, W James ^a   Kadambi, Pradeep V ^a   Harland, Robert C ^a,b   Thistlethwaite, J Richard ^b   West, Bradford L ^a   Udani, Suneel ^a   Poduval, Rajiv ^a   Josephson, Michelle A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL STAFF; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957322033     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.00150110     Document Type: Article

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