Addressing infection prevention and control in the first U.S. community hospital to care for patients with Ebola virus disease: Context for national recommendations and future strategies

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 41-49

  Cummings, Kristin J ^a   Choi, Mary J ^b   Esswein, Eric J ^a   De Perio, Marie A ^a   Harney, Joshua M ^a   Chung, Wendy M ^c   Lakey, David L ^d   Liddell, Allison M ^e   Rollin, Pierre E ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Dallas County Health and Human Services   (United States)

^d TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^e PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PATIENT CARE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84978039740     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M15-2944     Document Type: Review

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