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Examining the cost-effectiveness of personal protective equipment for formal healthcare workers in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Healthcare workers are at a higher risk of COVID-19 infection during care encounters compared to the general population. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) have been shown to protect COVID-19 among healthcare workers, however, Kenya has faced
Jacob Kazungu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

International healthcare worker migration in Asia Pacific: International policy responses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The growth of the international migration of health workers in recent decades has taken place in the context of the transnationalisation of healthcare provision as well as of governance and policy responses.
Pillinger, Jane, Yeates, Nicola
core   +1 more source

Complementary or Conflictual? Formal Participation, Informal Participation, and Organizational Performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Most studies of worker participation examine either formal participatory structures or informal participation. Yet, increasingly, works councils and other formal participatory bodies are operating in parallel with collective bargaining or are filling the
Eaton, Adrienne, Litwin, Adam Seth
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Gender Gap in Healthcare Worker—Patient Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Italian Observational Study

open access: yesPsych, 2022
The value of the healthcare worker–patient communication has been well demonstrated and validated in several studies evidencing its relation to positive patient health outcomes, including better care response, simpler decision-making, better patient ...
Vitale Elsa
doaj   +1 more source

Extended Spectrum β-Lactamase–producing Escherichia coli in Neonatal Care Unit

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
An outbreak of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Escherichia coli in a neonatal care unit began with transmission from a mother to her newborn twins during vaginal delivery.
Sarah Tschudin-Sutter   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Projected geographic disparities in healthcare worker absenteeism from COVID-19 school closures and the economic feasibility of child care subsidies: a simulation study

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2020
Background School closures have been enacted as a measure of mitigation during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It has been shown that school closures could cause absenteeism among healthcare workers with dependent children, but ...
Elizabeth T. Chin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of healthcare worker protocol deviations and self-contamination during personal protective equipment donning and doffing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
OBJECTIVETo evaluate healthcare worker (HCW) risk of self-contamination when donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE) using fluorescence and MS2 bacteriophage.DESIGNProspective pilot study.SETTINGTertiary-care hospital.PARTICIPANTSA total ...
Burnham, Carey-Ann D   +10 more
core   +2 more sources

Healthcare worker competencies for disaster training

open access: yesBMC Medical Education, 2006
Background Although training and education have long been accepted as integral to disaster preparedness, many currently taught practices are neither evidence-based nor standardized.
Kelen Gabor D   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anonymity or transparency in reporting of medial error: a community-based survey in South Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The document attached has been archived with permission from the editor of the Medical Journal of Australia. An external link to the publisher’s copy is included.Objectives: To seek public opinion on the reporting of medical errors and the anonymity of ...
Berry, J.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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