A successful strategy for increasing the influenza vaccination rate of healthcare workers without a mandatory policy outside of the United States: A multifaceted intervention in a Japanese tertiary care center

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1194-1200

  Honda, Hitoshi ^a,b   Sato, Yumiko ^b   Yamazaki, Akinori ^b   Padival, Simi ^c   Kumagai, Akira ^b   Babcock, Hilary ^d  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN TAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Teine Keijinkai Medical Center   (Japan)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; JAPAN; MANDATORY REPORTING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PATIENT SAFETY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VACCINATION; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAPAN; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84885455349     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673452     Document Type: Article

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