Admissions and surgery as indicators of hospital functions in Sierra Leone during the west-African Ebola outbreak

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Bolkan, Håkon A ^a,b,c   Van Duinen, Alex ^a,b,c   Samai, Mohammed ^d,e   Bash Taqi, Donald Alpha ^d,e   Gassama, Ibrahim ^d   Waalewijn, Bart ^c   Wibe, Arne ^a,b   Von Schreeb, Johan ^f  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c CapaCare   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE   (Sierra Leone)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ebola viral disease; Hospital functioning; Inpatient admissions; Sierra Leone; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; CHECKLIST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREGNANCY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SIERRA LEONE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY;

CESAREAN SECTION; CHECKLIST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FACILITIES AND SERVICES UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES UTILIZATION; SIERRA LEONE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 85056390884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-018-3666-9     Document Type: Article

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