Ebola Cases and Health System Demand in Liberia

PLoS Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Drake, John M ^a   Kaul, RajReni B ^a   Alexander, Laura W ^a   O’Regan, Suzanne M ^a   Kramer, Andrew M ^a   Pulliam, J Tomlin ^a   Ferrari, Matthew J ^b   Park, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE FINDING; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; LIBERIA; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STRATEGIC PLANNING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

EBOLA VIRUS;

EPIDEMICS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIBERIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84922250260     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002056     Document Type: Article

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