Seasonal influenza vaccination predicts pandemic H1N1 vaccination uptake among healthcare workers in three countries

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue 43, 2011, Pages 7364-7369

  Chor, Josette S Y ^a   Pada, Surinder K ^b   Stephenson, Iain ^c   Goggins, William B ^a   Tambyah, Paul A ^b   Clarke, Tristan William ^c   Medina, Mariejo ^c   Lee, Nelson ^a   Leung, Ting Fun ^a   Ngai, Karry L K ^a   Law, Shu Kei ^a   Rainer, Timothy H ^a   Griffiths, Sian ^a   Chan, Paul K S ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

H1N1; Health care workers; Influenza; Pandemic vaccine; Standardized questionnaire; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEAR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SINGAPORE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80053451710     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.07.079     Document Type: Article

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