Different Types of Door-Opening Motions as Contributing Factors to Containment Failures in Hospital Isolation Rooms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Tang, Julian W ^a,b,c   Nicolle, Andre ^a   Pantelic, Jovan ^d   Klettner, Christian A ^a   Su, Ruikun ^a   Kalliomaki, Petri ^e   Saarinen, Pekka ^e   Koskela, Hannu ^e   Reijula, Kari ^e   Mustakallio, Panu ^f   Cheong, David K W ^d   Sekhar, Chandra ^d   Tham, Kwok Wai ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b PROVINCIAL LABORATORY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^f Halton Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD DYE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIRBORNE MICROORGANISM; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; DOOR OPENING MOTION; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HOSPITAL ISOLATION ROOM; HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; WARD;

HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MOTION; PATIENT ISOLATION; PATIENTS' ROOMS;

EID: 84879474963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066663     Document Type: Article

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