Assessing interventions to improve influenza vaccine uptake among health care workers

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 284-292

  Rashid, Harunor ^a   Yin, Jiehui Kevin ^b   Ward, Kirsten ^a   King, Catherine ^a   Seale, Holly ^c   Booy, Robert ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCOME; NURSING HOME; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VACCINATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; UTILIZATION;

HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VACCINATION;

EID: 84958626836     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1087     Document Type: Article

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