Raising awareness of health care providers about MERSCoV infection in public hospitals in Mecca, Saudi Arabia;Accroître la sensibilisation des prestataires de soins concernant l’infection MERS-CoV dans les hôpitaux de la Mecque (Arabie saoudite)

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 534-542

  Nour, Mohamed O ^a,b   Babalghith, Ahmed O ^a   Natto, Hatim A ^a   Alawneh, Sallahaldeen M ^a   Elamin, Fowzi O ^a  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; OCCUPATION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; EDUCATION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; IN SERVICE TRAINING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAUDI ARABIA;

ADULT; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85032981127     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26719/2017.23.8.534     Document Type: Article

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