Healthcare workers' perceptions of mandatory vaccination: Results of an anonymous survey in a German University Hospital

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1066-1069

  Wicker, Sabine ^a   Marckmann, Georg ^b   Poland, Gregory A ^c   Rabenau, Holger F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEPATITIS B; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MUMPS; NURSE; NURSING ASSISTANT; PATIENT CARE; PERTUSSIS; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK REDUCTION; RUBELLA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; VACCINATION; VIRUS DISEASES; WHOOPING COUGH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957874616     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656242     Document Type: Article

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