Balancing the duty to treat patients with Ebola virus disease with the risks to dialysis personnel

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2263-2267

  Evans, Nicholas G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL ETHICS; PROFESSIONALISM; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFETY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MORALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TRANSMISSION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CODES OF ETHICS; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84957807024     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.03730415     Document Type: Article

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