Personal protective equipment management and policies: European network for highly infectious diseases data from 48 isolation facilities in 16 European countries

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1008-1016

  De Iaco, Giuseppina ^a   Puro, Vincenzo ^a   Fusco, Francesco Maria ^a   Schilling, Stefan ^b   Maltezou, Helena C ^c   Brouqui, Philippe ^d   Gottschalk, René ^e   Bannister, Barbara ^f   Brodt, Hans Reinhard ^b   Siikamaki, Heli ^g   Perronne, Christian ^h   Brantster, Arne Broch ⁱ   Fjellet, Anne Lise ⁱ   Ippolito, Giuseppe ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e Department of Health ^*  (Germany)

^f ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g Aurora Hospital   (Finland)

^h Raymond Poincaré University Hospital   (France)

ⁱ OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEPSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHECKLIST; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; HOSPITALS, ISOLATION; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

EID: 84866161665     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667729     Document Type: Review

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