Human Factors Risk Analyses of a Doffing Protocol for Ebola-Level Personal Protective Equipment: Mapping Errors to Contamination

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 950-958

  Mumma, Joel M ^a   Durso, Francis T ^a   Ferguson, Ashley N ^a   Gipson, Christina L ^a   Casanova, Lisa ^b   Erukunuakpor, Kimberly ^b   Kraft, Colleen S ^c   Walsh, Victoria L ^c   Zimring, Craig ^a   Dubose, Jennifer ^a   Jacob, Jesse T ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; human factors; occupational health; personal protective equipment; risk analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; DEVICES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GAS MASK; HAZARDOUS WASTE; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; VIROLOGY;

CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85043481656     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix957     Document Type: Article

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