Design strategies to improve healthcare worker safety in biocontainment units: Learning from ebola preparedness

Slavic Review

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 961-967

  Dubose, Jennifer R ^a   Matić, Zorana ^a   Sala, Maria Fernanda Wong ^a   Mumma, Joel M ^a   Kraft, Colleen S ^b   Casanova, Lisa M ^c   Erukunuakpor, Kimberly ^c   Durso, Francis T ^a   Walsh, Victoria L ^b   Shah, Puja ^b   Zimring, Craig M ^a   Jacob, Jesse T ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SAFETY; SIMULATION TRAINING;

BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; EVIDENCE-BASED FACILITY DESIGN; GEORGIA; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH RISK BEHAVIORS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SIMULATION TRAINING;

EID: 85061135632     PISSN: 00376779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.125     Document Type: Article

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