Safe management of patients with serious communicable diseases: Recent experience with ebola virus

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 829-830

  Isakov, Alexander ^a   Jamison, Aaron ^b   Miles, Wade ^b   Ribner, Bruce ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Grady EMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; SHORT SURVEY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT ISOLATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 84919493281     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M14-2084     Document Type: Short Survey

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