A qualitative assessment of a performance measure for reporting influenza vaccination rates among healthcare personnel

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 945-948

  MacCannell, Taranisia ^a   Shugart, Alicia ^a   Schneider, Amy K ^a   Lindley, Megan C ^b   Lorick, Suchita A ^b   Rao, Agam ^a   Woods, LaDora O ^b   Ahmed, Faruque ^b   Sinkowitz Cochran, Ronda L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84864952288     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667375     Document Type: Article

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