Updated recommendations of the advisory committee on immunization practices for healthcare personnel vaccination: A necessary foundation for the essential work that remains to build successful programs

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-74

  Shefer, Abigail ^a   Strikas, Raymond ^a   Bridges, Carolyn B ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NOTE; PERTUSSIS; VACCINATION;

CROSS INFECTION; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA VACCINES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84055222937     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662715     Document Type: Note

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