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Improving Rates of Influenza Vaccination Among Healthcare Workers: Educate; Motivate; Mandate?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thomas R. Talbot
Thomas R. Talbot*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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A-2200 Medical Center North, 1161 21st Avenue South, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232 (tom.talbot@vanderbilt.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , February 2008 , pp. 107 - 110
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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