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First Do No Harm: Ensuring That Healthcare Workers Vaccinate and Are Vaccinated

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kristin L. Nichol
Kristin L. Nichol*
Affiliation:
Minneapolis VA Medical Center and theUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 24 , Issue 11 , November 2003 , pp. 799 - 800
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2003

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