Attitudes toward and factors affecting influenza vaccination among physicians and nurses of a tertiary-care hospital in the central Anatolia region of turkey

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 117-123

  Cihan, Fatma Goksin ^a   Durmaz, Funda Gokgoz ^a   Odabas, Dursun ^a   Baydemir, Canan ^b   Kacar, Fatma ^a  

^a KONYA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Health care; Influenza; Nurses; Physicians; Side effects; Turkey; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INJECTION SITE REACTION; MALE; NURSE ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SELF REPORT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INFLUENZA; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875800919     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2012.11.2602     Document Type: Article

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