Understanding health care personnel's attitudes toward mandatory influenza vaccination

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 649-652

  Awali, Reda A ^a   Samuel, Preethy S ^b   Marwaha, Bharat ^a   Ahmad, Nazir ^a   Gupta, Puneet ^a   Kumar, Vinod ^a   Ellsworth, Joseph ^a   Flanagan, Elaine ^a   Upfal, Mark ^c   Russell, Jim ^c   Kaplan, Carol ^a   Kaye, Keith S ^a   Chopra, Teena ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DETROIT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethical; Leadership; Pro mandate attitude; Web based questionnaire

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; PATIENT CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TREATMENT REFUSAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VACCINATION;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84901024000     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2014.02.025     Document Type: Article

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