Community Care Centre (CCC) as adjunct in the management of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases during outbreaks: experience from Sierra Leone

Community Care Centres (CCCs) represent an innovative response to the containment of infection and the care of those infected in the context of an an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak of unprecedented scale. This paper describes the implementation of this response in the Port Loko district of Sierr...

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Autores principales: Olu, Olushayo, Cormican, Martin, Kamara, Kande-Bure, Butt, Waqar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4695525/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26740842
http://dx.doi.org/10.11694/pamj.supp.2015.22.1.6521
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Cormican, Martin
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description Community Care Centres (CCCs) represent an innovative response to the containment of infection and the care of those infected in the context of an an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak of unprecedented scale. This paper describes the implementation of this response in the Port Loko district of Sierra Leone in the last quarter of 2014. CCCs were effective in encouraging EVD patients to come forward, thus removing risk of transmission to their families and communities however there is significant scope for improvement in care for patients in the centres if the model is applied in future outbreaks of infectious disease. Changes in lay out of the centres, in staff training and support, in logistics and patient education are recommended.
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spelling pubmed-46955252016-01-06 Community Care Centre (CCC) as adjunct in the management of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases during outbreaks: experience from Sierra Leone Olu, Olushayo Cormican, Martin Kamara, Kande-Bure Butt, Waqar Pan Afr Med J Short Report Community Care Centres (CCCs) represent an innovative response to the containment of infection and the care of those infected in the context of an an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak of unprecedented scale. This paper describes the implementation of this response in the Port Loko district of Sierra Leone in the last quarter of 2014. CCCs were effective in encouraging EVD patients to come forward, thus removing risk of transmission to their families and communities however there is significant scope for improvement in care for patients in the centres if the model is applied in future outbreaks of infectious disease. Changes in lay out of the centres, in staff training and support, in logistics and patient education are recommended. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4695525/ /pubmed/26740842 http://dx.doi.org/10.11694/pamj.supp.2015.22.1.6521 Text en © Olushayo Olu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Community Care Centre (CCC) as adjunct in the management of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases during outbreaks: experience from Sierra Leone
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