Tackling Disparities in Influenza Vaccination in Primary Care: It Takes a Team

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1579-1581

  Fiscella, Kevin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AMBULATORY CARE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; OFFICE VISITS;

EID: 84939883432     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-2999-2     Document Type: Article

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