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Achieving Minimum Standards for Infection Prevention and Control in Sierra Leone: Urgent Need for a Quantum Leap in Progress in the COVID-19 Era!

Introduction: Good Infection prevention and control (IPC) is vital for tackling antimicrobial resistance and limiting health care-associated infections. We compared IPC performance before (2019) and during the COVID-19 (2021) era at the national IPC unit and all regional (4) and district hospitals (...

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Autores principales:	Fofanah, Bobson Derrick, Abrahamyan, Arpine, Maruta, Anna, Kallon, Christiana, Thekkur, Pruthu, Kamara, Ibrahim Franklyn, Njuguna, Charles Kuria, Squire, James Sylvester, Kanu, Joseph Sam, Bah, Abdulai Jawo, Lakoh, Sulaiman, Kamara, Dauda, Hermans, Veerle, Zachariah, Rony
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	MDPI 2022
Materias:	Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9102022/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35565037 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095642

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