Current practices and barriers to the use of facemasks and respirators among hospital-based health care workers in Vietnam

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 72-77

  Chughtai, Abrar Ahmad ^a   Seale, Holly ^a   Dung, Tham Chi ^b   Maher, Lisa ^c   Nga, Phan Thi ^b   MacIntyre, C Raina ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cloth mask; Influenza; Low and middle income countries; Pandemic; Respiratory infection; Surgical mask

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; VENTILATOR; VIET NAM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HOSPITAL; MASK; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; UTILIZATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MASKS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIETNAM;

EID: 84927555721     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.009     Document Type: Article

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