Collateral damage: the unforeseen effects of emergency outbreak policies

The 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome took the province of Ontario, Canada, by surprise. A lack of planning and the decentralised nature of the health-care system meant that disruptive control measures had to be put in place to control the outbreak. Several of the control strategies...

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Autores principales: Lim, Sue, Closson, Tom, Howard, Gillian, Gardam, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15522682
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(04)01176-4
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description The 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome took the province of Ontario, Canada, by surprise. A lack of planning and the decentralised nature of the health-care system meant that disruptive control measures had to be put in place to control the outbreak. Several of the control strategies were difficult to implement and resulted in considerable confusion, fear, and costs. We discuss these difficulties and offer suggestions for improving outbreak planning.
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spelling pubmed-71289082020-04-08 Collateral damage: the unforeseen effects of emergency outbreak policies Lim, Sue Closson, Tom Howard, Gillian Gardam, Michael Lancet Infect Dis Article The 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome took the province of Ontario, Canada, by surprise. A lack of planning and the decentralised nature of the health-care system meant that disruptive control measures had to be put in place to control the outbreak. Several of the control strategies were difficult to implement and resulted in considerable confusion, fear, and costs. We discuss these difficulties and offer suggestions for improving outbreak planning. Elsevier Ltd. 2004-11 2004-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7128908/ /pubmed/15522682 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(04)01176-4 Text en Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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