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  "Knowledge and attitudes of healthcare workers towards a suspect case of Ebola virus disease/Conocimientos y aptitudes del personal sanitario frente a sospecha de caso de enfermedad por el virus del Ébola"

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Epidemiology, Español, Infection Prevention and Control, Outbreaks, Public Health, R-Res&Pub, Spanish, Staff Support, Staffing, Treatment and Care, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Gómez-Romero FJ, Gómez-García JM, Arencibia-Jiménez M, Delgado-de Los Reyes JA, Sarmiento-Sempere R, García-Abad I, Vicedo-Cano R, Pérez-Torregrosa G, Navarro-Gracia JF.
  Subject: Elementos en Español
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-04-01
  Description: The last outbreak of the Ebola virus disease, was a precedent to demonstrate the necessary training of healthcare personnel for possible eventualities of suspected cases of infectious diseases. It is required to study the level of…

• EVALUATION OF THE PERCEPTION OF RISK IN THE NURSING STAFF IN CARE OF PATIENTS WITH SUSPECTED BIOLOGICAL HAZARD

  Tags Contact Transmission, Droplet Transmission, Ebola, Español, Occupational Exposure, Occupational Health, R-PM, R-Res&Pub, Spanish, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Grau Giner A, Fornieles Moreira M, Márquez Mora M, Moragas Bayés N, Rodríguez Ruiz MJ, Gisbert Cases Á
  Subject: Elementos en Español
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2016-05-01
  Description: Healthcare personnel is especially vulnerable to the risks derived from their job. The complexity that has the care of patients with Ebola justifies the study of the perception of risk of such professionals.

• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: ‘clipboard physicians’ or ‘evidenced based medicine’?

  Tags Critical Care, Ethics, Flu, Influenza, Pandemic, R-Res&Pub, Treatment and Care
  Creator: Guest, T., G. Tantam, N. Donlin, K. Tantam, H. McMillan, and A. Tillyard.
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2009-10-09
  Description: We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government‐recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit.

• Ebola Infection in Pregnancy: A Global Perspective and Lessons Learned.

  Tags Ebola, Family Support, Neonates, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Haddad, L. B., J. Horton, B. S. Ribner and D. J. Jamieson
  Subject: Research
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-03-18
  Description: The 2014 to 2016 Ebola outbreak, primarily based in 3 West African countries, had far-reaching global effects. 
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  Pregnant Women and the Ebola Crisis

  Tags Contact Transmission, Ebola, Epidemiology, Infection Prevention and Control, Labor and Delivery, Neonates, Outbreaks, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Vaccine Study
  Creator: Haddad, Lisa B., Denise J. Jamieson, and Sonja A. Rasmussen.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-12-27
  Description: On August 1, 2018, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported the emergence of another Ebola virus outbreak, the 10th in the DRC since the virus was discovered in 1976. As of November 13, 2018, there were 341 cases and…
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  Ebola Infection in Pregnancy

  Tags Ebola, Labor and Delivery, R-Res&Pub, R-SP, R-T&C, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
  Creator: Haddad, Lisa B., John Horton, Bruce S. Ribner, and Denise J. Jamieson.
  Subject: Treatment & Care
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2018-03
  Description: The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak primarily based in 3 West African countries, had far-reaching global effects.

• Decision model for optimizing respirator protection.

  Tags Airborne Transmission, Mask, Masks, N95, Occupational Exposure, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Respiratory Pathogen
  Creator: Harber, Philip, Brenda Merz, and Karen Chi.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 1999-05
  Description: Respirators are widely used for protection against inhaled toxins. The emphasis of research and implementation effort has evolved through several stages: the respirator device itself, use situation, respirator program factors under employer control,…

• Understanding Workflow and Personal Protective Equipment Challenges Across Different Healthcare Personnel Roles

  Tags Occupational Health, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), R-PM, R-PPE, R-Res&Pub, Staff Rotations, Staffing
  Creator: Harrod, Molly, Laura Petersen, Lauren E. Weston, Lynn Gregory, Jeanmarie Mayer, Matthew H. Samore, Frank A. Drews, and Sarah L. Krein.
  Subject: Infection Control
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-10-01
  Description: Hospitals use standard and transmission-based precautions, including personal protective equipment (PPE), to prevent the spread of infectious organisms.

• Lessons from Ebola: Preventing the Next Pandemic

  Tags Ebola, Outbreaks, Pandemic, R-T&E, Training
  Creator: Harvard University
  Subject: Emergency Management
  Item Type: Online Course
  Date Last Updated: 2018-09-03
  Description: Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better. Open September 3, 2018 – September 1, 2020

• Using healthcare-seeking behaviour to estimate the number of Nipah outbreaks missed by hospital-based surveillance in Bangladesh

  Tags Nipah (NiV), R-EM, R-Res&Pub
  Creator: Hegde, S. T., H. Salje, H. M. S. Sazzad, M. J. Hossain, M. Rahman, P. Daszak, J. D. Klena, S. T. Nichol, S. P. Luby, and E. S. Gurley.
  Subject: Laboratory
  Item Type: Publication
  Date Last Updated: 2019-08-01
  Description: Understanding the true burden of emergent diseases is critical for assessing public-health impact. However, surveillance often relies on hospital systems that only capture a minority of cases. We use the example of Nipah-virus infection in…