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Improving Ebola infection prevention and control in primary healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone: a single-group pretest post-test, mixed-methods study
BACKGROUND: Accomplishing infection prevention and control (IPC) in health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa is challenging. Owing to poor IPC, healthcare workers (HCWs) were frequently infected during Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic. In late 2014, IPC was rapidly and nationally scaled up. We carr...
Autores principales: | Ratnayake, Ruwan, Ho, Lara S, Ansumana, Rashid, Brown, Hannah, Borchert, Matthias, Miller, Laura, Kratz, Thomas, McMahon, Shannon A, Sahr, Foday |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5321376/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28588978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000103 |
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