Anticipated behaviors of emergency prehospital medical care providers during an influenza pandemic

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-25

  Tippett, Vivienne C ^a,b,c   Watt, Kerrianne ^a,b,c   Raven, Steven G ^a,c   Kelly, Heath A ^d   Coory, Michael ^c,e   Archer, Frank ^f   Jamrozik, Konrad ^d  

^a Australian Centre for Pre hospital Research   (Australia)

^b Queensland Government Department of Emergency Services   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^e QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

attitudes; behavior; emergency medical services; infection control; influenza; pandemic; prehospital; risk perceptions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; PERCEPTION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOMETRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; BIRDS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955577256     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00007603     Document Type: Article

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