Vaccination of health care workers against influenza: Is it time to think about a mandatory policy in Europe?

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 4844-4848

  Wicker, Sabine ^a   Marckmann, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Health care worker; Infection control; Influenza; Mandatory vaccination; Policy

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DRUG EFFICACY; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MANDATORY PROGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESIDENT; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHICS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; VACCINATION;

CROSS INFECTION; EUROPE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84906054182     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.09.062     Document Type: Article

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