Assessment of hospital emergency department response to potentially infectious diseases using unannounced mystery patient drills - New York City, 2016

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 66, Issue 36, 2017, Pages 945-949

  Foote, Mary M K ^a   Styles, Timothy S ^a,b   Quinn, Celia L ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HUMAN; MASK; MEASLES; NEW YORK; PATIENT ISOLATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; TRAVEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MASKS; MEASLES; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT ISOLATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 85029668123     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6636a2     Document Type: Article

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