Review preventing the soldiers of health care from becoming victims on the pandemic battlefield: Respirators or surgical masks as the armor of choice

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL.2, 2009, Pages

  Radonovich Jr , Lewis J ^a   Perl, Trish M ^b   Davey, Victoria ^a   Cohen, Howard ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EPIDEMIC; GAS MASK; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MASK; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNCERTAINTY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MASKS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77649283884     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 193844X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e3181be830c     Document Type: Review

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