Personal attitudes and misconceptions, not official recommendations guide occupational physicians' vaccination decisions

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 35, 2014, Pages 4478-4484

  Betsch, Cornelia ^a   Wicker, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Healthcare personnel; Immunization; Nosocomial infection; Occupational infection; Occupational physician; Vaccination recommendation

Indexed keywords

MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; THERAPEUTIC MISCONCEPTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; UTILIZATION; VACCINATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; VACCINATION;

EID: 84904380642     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.06.046     Document Type: Article

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