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The Next Battleground for Patient Safety: Influenza Immunization of Healthcare Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Christopher J. Hoffmann  and
Trish M. Perl
Christopher J. Hoffmann
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Trish M. Perl*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
*
425 Osier, 600 North Wolfe Street, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, [email protected]
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 26 , Issue 11 , November 2005 , pp. 850 - 851
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2005

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