Prioritising healthcare workers for Ebola treatment: Treating those at greatest risk to confer greatest benefit

Developing World Bioethics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 59-67

  Satalkar, Priya ^a   Elger, Bernice E ^a,b   Shaw, David M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Bioethics; Clinical trials; Community engagement; Disease surveillance; Ebola; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; EBOLA VACCINE; NEW DRUG;

AFRICA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; POLITICS; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK; STANDARDS; UTILIZATION;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUGS, INVESTIGATIONAL; EBOLA VACCINES; EBOLAVIRUS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK;

EID: 84937515364     PISSN: 14718731     EISSN: 14718847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dewb.12079     Document Type: Article

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