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Creator: Benenson, Shmuel, Yonatan Oster, Matan J. Cohen, and Ran Nir-Paz.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-03-23
Description: The surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) around the world and the need for urgent and intensive medical care have weighed heavily on health care systems and hospitals.Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.
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Creator: Dagan, Noa, Noam Barda, Eldad Kepten, Oren Miron, Shay Perchik, Mark A. Katz, Miguel A. Hernán, Marc Lipsitch, Ben Reis, and Ran D. Balicer.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-02-24
Description: As mass vaccination campaigns against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) commence worldwide, vaccine effectiveness needs to be assessed for a range of outcomes across diverse populations in a noncontrolled setting. In this study, data from Israel’s… -
Creator: National Academies of Sciences, E. and Medicine
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2017-10-31
Description: During public health emergencies (PHEs) involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear threats or emerging infectious diseases, medical countermeasures (MCMs) (e.g., drugs, vaccines, devices) may need to be dispensed or administered to… -
Creator: Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Calvin J. Chiew, and Vernon J. Lee.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-05
Description: The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 resulted in more than 8000 cases and 800 deaths. -
Creator: Chertow DS, Childs RW, Arai AE, Davey RT Jr.
Subject: Research
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2017-06-05
Description: In March, 2015, a 34 year-old previously healthy male healthcare worker was evacuated from Sierra Leone to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Research Center for the management of severe Ebola virus disease (EVD). -
Creator: Feistritzer, N. R., C. Hill, S. Vanairsdale, and J. Gentry
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2014-11
Description: Caring for patients with Ebola virus disease requires strict biosafety protocols to eliminate exposure and ensure containment. Training and competency verification were critical to creation of a safe environment for nursing staff involved in the… -
Creator: Kortepeter, M. G., P. W. Smith, A. Hewlett and T. J. Cieslak
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-02-06
Description: The largest outbreak of Ebola virus continues unabated in West Africa. With the recent death of a patient with Ebola virus disease at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, and the sobering reality that nosocomial spread has occurred in a U.S. facility, U.S.… -
Creator: Sise, Meghan E., Meridale V. Baggett, Jo-Anne O. Shepard, Jacob S. Stevens, and Eugene P. Rhee.
Subject: Treatment & Care
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-05-13
Description: Dr. Meridale V. Baggett: A 68-year-old man was admitted to this hospital with fever, shortness of breath, and acute kidney injury during the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome… -
Creator: MacIntyre, Chandini Raina.
Subject: Infection Control
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-06-16
Description: Amid the urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic response, the study by Adam Kucharski and colleagues in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reminds us that all available control measures should be used together to drive the effective reproduction number (Reff)… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Waste Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2019-08-29
Description: When treating a patient with Ebola virus disease, hospitals and health care providers must safely handle, transport, and dispose of waste. Dr. Shawn Gibbs, PhD, MBA, CIH executive associate dean and professor with Indiana University School of Public…