Evaluation of the benefts and risks of introducing ebola community care centers, sierra leone

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 393-399

  Kucharski, Adam J ^a   Camacho, Anton ^a   Checchi, Francesco ^b   Waldman, Ron ^c   Grais, Rebecca F ^d   Cabrol, Jean Clement ^e   Briand, Sylvie ^f   Baguelin, Marc ^a   Flasche, Stefan ^a   Funk, Sebastian ^a   John Edmunds, W ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EPICENTRE   (France)

^e Médecinssans Frontières   (Switzerland)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY CARE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; SIERRA LEONE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84923173887     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2103.141892     Document Type: Article

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