Infectious Disease Physician Assessment of Hospital Preparedness for Ebola Virus Disease

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Polgreen, Philip M ^a   Santibanez, Scott ^b,c   Koonin, Lisa M ^b   Rupp, Mark E ^d   Beekmann, Susan E ^a   del Rio, Carlos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; healthcare facilities; preparedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992707682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/OFID/OFV087     Document Type: Article

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