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- Title
Fighting the Flu: A Vaccination Program for Healthcare Workers.
- Authors
Reedy, Anita M.
- Abstract
The article reports on a vaccination program for healthcare workers. Even when they are asymptomatic, healthcare workers can transmit flu to their patients in hospitals and nursing homes. The Epidemiology and infection control committee at the author's hospital, to decrease the risk of passing the flu to patients, requested that the oncology center pilot test a program to increase the percentage of staff members who received the flu vaccine.
- Subjects
VACCINATION; PREVENTION of communicable diseases; MEDICAL personnel; INFLUENZA prevention; INFLUENZA vaccines
- Publication
Oncology Nursing Forum, 2008, Vol 35, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0190-535X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1188/08.ONF.171-172