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Common Behaviors and Faults When Doffing Personal Protective Equipment for Patients With Serious Communicable Diseases

BACKGROUND: The safe removal of personal protective equipment (PPE) can limit transmission of serious communicable diseases, but this process poses challenges to healthcare workers (HCWs). METHODS: We observed 41 HCWs across 4 Ebola treatment centers in Georgia doffing PPE for simulated patients wit...

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Autores principales: Mumma, Joel M, Durso, Francis T, Casanova, Lisa M, Erukunuakpor, Kimberly, Kraft, Colleen S, Ray, Susan M, Shane, Andi L, Walsh, Victoria L, Shah, Puja Y, Zimring, Craig, DuBose, Jennifer, Jacob, Jesse T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31517977
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz614