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Reasons That Healthcare Workers Decline Influenza Vaccination in a New Zealand Hospital Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Chris Walls
Chris Walls*
Affiliation:
Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , April 2000 , pp. 249 - 250
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2000

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