title: Lifesaving shots.
abstract: Unfortunately, low rates of influenza immunization among health care workers contribute to some influenza outbreaks in hospitals and long-term care facilities. The Texas Medical Association believes the hospital should be a place where people go to get better, not a place where they should worry about contracting a vaccine-preventable disease. TMA policy strongly endorses immunizing all physicians with the recommended vaccines available for preventable, communicable diseases.
authors.forename: Crystal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Conde
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017053:Infection Control; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000517:prevention & control; D013781:Texas; D014611:Vaccination / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence