Facemasks for the prevention of infection in healthcare and community settings

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  MacIntyre, C Raina ^a   Chughtai, Abrar Ahmad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLOTH MASK; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FACE MASK; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MASK; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; N95 RESPIRATOR; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PANDEMIC; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOURCE CONTROL; STAFF TRAINING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TUBERCULOSIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; GAS MASK; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MASKS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84928034595     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h694     Document Type: Review

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