Changing the default to promote influenza vaccination among health care workers

Vaccine

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1389-1392

  Lehmann, Birthe A ^a   Chapman, Gretchen B ^b   Franssen, Frits ME ^c   Kok, Gerjo ^d   Ruiter, Robert AC ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CIRO+   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Default; Health care workers; Influenza; Intervention; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VACCINATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84959091801     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.01.046     Document Type: Article

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