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Personalized Education Improves Hepatitis B Vaccination Rate Among Physicians in Saudi Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ziad A. Memish
Affiliation:
King Fahad National Guard Hospital
Eunice I. Sobayo
Affiliation:
Security Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Abstract

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Type
Letter to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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