Current capabilities and capacity of Ebola treatment centers in the United States

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 313-318

  Herstein, Jocelyn J ^a   Biddinger, Paul D ^b,c   Kraft, Colleen S ^d   Saiman, Lisa ^e,f   Gibbs, Shawn G ^g,h   Le, Aurora B ^a   Smith, Philip W ^a,g   Hewlett, Angela L ^a,g   Lowe, John J ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^f NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g Nebraska Medicine   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; E-MAIL; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRICS; UNITED STATES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALS, ISOLATION; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84959196792     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.300     Document Type: Article

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