Ebola Triage Screening and Public Health: The New "Vital Sign Zero"

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 57-58

  Koenig, Kristi L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; infectious disease medicine; public health; public health emergency; triage

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; VITAL SIGN;

DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TRIAGE; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84924620953     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2014.120     Document Type: Note

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