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On Being the First: Virginia Mason Medical Center and Mandatory Influenza Vaccination of Healthcare Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thomas R. Talbot  and
William Schaffner
Thomas R. Talbot*
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
William Schaffner
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
*
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, A-2200 Medical Center North, 1161 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37232 (tom.talbot@vanderbilt.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 9 , September 2010 , pp. 889 - 892
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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