Ebola fever: Reconciling planning with risk in U.S. hospitals

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 751-752

  Klompas, Michael ^a   Diekema, Daniel J ^b   Fishman, Neil O ^c   Yokoe, Deborah S ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STANDARDS; TRANSMISSION;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HEALTH PLANNING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS;

EID: 84910648415     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-1918     Document Type: Note

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