Influenza pandemic and professional duty: Family or patients first? A survey of hospital employees

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ehrenstein, Boris P ^a   Hanses, Frank ^a   Salzberger, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; MALE; PANDEMIC; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; WORKPLACE; ABSENTEEISM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; NURSING STAFF; PATHOGENICITY; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIROLOGY;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUSAL TO TREAT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 33846691235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-311     Document Type: Article

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