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Employee Thoughts on Influenza Vaccine: Here We Go Again

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Noreen H. Chan-Tompkins ,
Andrew Sahud ,
Deborah Pucci  and
Cheryl Herbert
Noreen H. Chan-Tompkins*
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy, Allegheny General Hospital, Pennsylvania Mylan School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
Andrew Sahud
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Allegheny General Hospital, Pennsylvania College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Deborah Pucci
Affiliation:
Employee Health, Allegheny General Hospital, Pennsylvania
Cheryl Herbert
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Prevention, Allegheny General Hospital, Pennsylvania
*
Department of Pharmacy, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 (ntompkin@wpahs.org)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , February 2008 , pp. 186 - 187
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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