Healthcare workers' attitudes to working during pandemic influenza: A qualitative study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ives, Jonathan ^a   Greenfield, Sheila ^a   Parry, Jayne M ^a   Draper, Heather ^a   Gratus, Christine ^a   Petts, Judith I ^a   Sorell, Tom ^b   Wilson, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for the Study of Global Ethics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATE MEDICINE; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62149140608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-56     Document Type: Article

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