Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Providing Care in the Face of Uncertainty

JAMA

Volumn 289, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 2861-2863

  Masur, Henry ^a,b   Emanuel, Ezekiel ^a   Lane, H Clifford ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANADA; CAREGIVER; CORONAVIRUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACE MASK; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SMOKING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; NOTE; RISK;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; RISK; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 0038724279     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.289.21.JED30036     Document Type: Editorial

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