Revised SHEA position paper: influenza vaccination of healthcare personnel.

نویسندگان

  • Thomas R Talbot
  • Hilary Babcock
  • Arthur L Caplan
  • Deborah Cotton
  • Lisa L Maragakis
  • Gregory A Poland
  • Edward J Septimus
  • Michael L Tapper
  • David J Weber
چکیده

From the Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (T.R.T.), and Hospital Corporation of America (E.J.S.), Nashville, Tennessee; Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri (H.B.); Department of Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (A.L.C.); Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine (D.C.), and the Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health (D.C.), Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (L.L.M.); Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota (G.A.P.); Texas A & M Health Science Center, Houston (E.J.S.); Lenox Hill Hospital and the New York University School of Medicine, New York (M.L.T.); and the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (D.J.W.). D.C. and G.A.P. are liaisons from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Received July 30, 2010; accepted August 2, 2010; electronically published August 25, 2010. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010; 31(10):000-00

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Infection control and hospital epidemiology

دوره 31 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010