Health care workers' knowledge and confidence in personal protective equipment during the H1N1 pandemic in Israel

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 150-157

  Schwartz, Dagan ^a   Shapira, Stav ^a,b   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Healthcare Workers; Infection Control; Knowledge; Pandemic Influenza; Personal Protective Equipment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899881361     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2014.25     Document Type: Article

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