Protecting the frontline: Designing an infection prevention platform for preventing emerging respiratory viral illnesses in healthcare personnel

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 336-345

  Branch Elliman, Westyn ^a   Price, Connie Savor ^a,b   McGeer, Allison ^c   Perl, Trish M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CORONAVIRUS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE PROTECTION; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SARS CORONAVIRUS; SURGICAL MASK; VENTILATOR; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTION CONTROL; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TRANSMISSION; VIRUS DISEASES;

HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84923333158     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2014.52     Document Type: Article

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