Influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2627-2628

  Wicker, Sabine ^a   Marckmann, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Healthcare personnel; Healthcare workers; Immunization; Influenza; Mandatory; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MEASLES VACCINATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NOSOCOMIAL INFLUENZA; PATIENT SAFETY; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; UTILIZATION; VACCINATION; VIRUS DISEASES; WHOOPING COUGH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; VACCINATION; VIRUS DISEASES; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 84915736203     PISSN: 21645515     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/hv.28154     Document Type: Article

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