Improving communicable disease outbreak preparedness in residential aged care facilities using an interventional interview strategy

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 143-149

  Eastwood, Keith ^a,b,d   Osbourn, Maggi ^a   Francis, Lynn ^a   Merritt, Tony ^a   Nicholas, Craig ^a   Cashman, Patrick ^a   Durrheim, David ^a   Wiggers, John ^a,c  

^a HUNTER NEW ENGLAND POPULATION HEALTH   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d Hunter New England Population Health ^*

Author keywords

Disease outbreaks; Prevention and control; Residential facilities

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTERVIEW; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VACCINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDIES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; VACCINATION;

EID: 48849103809     PISSN: 14406381     EISSN: 17416612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2008.00299.x     Document Type: Article

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