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Healthcare Worker Seroconversion in SARS Outbreak

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004
Serum samples were obtained from healthcare workers 5 weeks after exposure to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). A sensitive dot blot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, complemented by a specific neutralization test, shows that only
Pierce K. H. Chow, Eng-Eong Ooi, Hiang-Khoon Tan, Kong-Wee Ong, Bijon Kumar Sil, Melissa Teo, Timothy Ng, Khee-Chee Soo   +7 more
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It’s all about the money? A qualitative study of healthcare worker motivation in urban China

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2017
Background China’s healthcare reform programme continues to receive much attention. Central to these discussions has been how the various financial incentives underpinning reform efforts are negatively impacting on the healthcare workforce.
Ross Millar, Yaru Chen, Meng Wang, Liang Fang, Jun Liu, Zhidong Xuan, Guohong Li   +6 more
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Varicella vaccination for healthcare workers [PDF]

BMJ, 2005
Is beneficial to patients and staff I n December 2003, the Oka vaccine to prevent chickenpox (varicella) was licensed in the United Kingdom for use in susceptible healthcare workers.1 One year later a survey of consultant virologists, who are members of the Clinical Virology Network and who between them provide virology services for 38 trusts located
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How effective are social norms interventions in changing the clinical behaviours of healthcare workers? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Implementation Science, 2021
Background Healthcare workers perform clinical behaviours which impact on patient diagnoses, care, treatment and recovery. Some methods of supporting healthcare workers in changing their behaviour make use of social norms by exposing healthcare workers ...
Mei Yee Tang, Sarah Rhodes, Rachael Powell, Laura McGowan, Elizabeth Howarth, Benjamin Brown, Sarah Cotterill   +6 more
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A spatiotemporal simulation study on the transmission of harmful microorganisms through connected healthcare workers in a hospital ward setting

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Hand transmission of harmful microorganisms may lead to infections and poses a major threat to patients and healthcare workers in healthcare settings.
J. M. van Niekerk, A. Stein, M. H. E. Doting, M. Lokate, L. M. A. Braakman-Jansen, J. E. W. C. van Gemert-Pijnen   +5 more
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Influenza Vaccination of Healthcare Workers [PDF]

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1997
Abstract Objective: To assess factors associated with influenza vaccination of healthcare workers. Design: Cross-sectional survey. Setting:
K L, Nichol, M, Hauge
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Lack of Secondary Transmission of Ebola Virus from Healthcare Worker to 238 Contacts, United Kingdom, December 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
In December 2014, Ebola virus disease (EVD) was diagnosed in a healthcare worker in the United Kingdom after the worker returned from an Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone. The worker flew on 2 flights during the early stages of disease. Follow-up of
Paul Crook, Alison Smith-Palmer, Helen Maguire, Noel McCarthy, Hilary Kirkbride, Bruce Court, Sanch Kanagarajah, Deborah Turbitt, Syed Ahmed, Paul Cosford, Isabel Oliver   +10 more
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Gender and intention to leave healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic among U.S. healthcare workers: A cross sectional analysis of the HERO registry.

PLoS ONE, 2023
ImportanceThe COVID-19 pandemic stressed the healthcare field, resulting in a worker exodus at the onset and throughout the pandemic and straining healthcare systems.
Rachel Apple, Emily C O'Brien, Nancy M Daraiseh, Haolin Xu, Russell L Rothman, Mark Linzer, Laine Thomas, Christianne Roumie   +7 more
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Healthcare worker access to molnupiravir: A case series.

PLoS ONE, 2023
Molnupiravir, an oral antiviral shown to reduce COVID-19 severity, is available in Australia via the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for treatment of mild-moderate COVID-19. For people less than 70 years of age it is only available with risk factors
Jessica C O'Keeffe, Meg Constable, Janice Chiang, Margaret Somerville, Arvind Yerramilli, Ross Nolan, Greg Weeks, Daniel P O'Brien   +7 more
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Noise exposure in healthcare workers

Medicine Science | International Medical Journal, 2023
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of noise in hospitals on healthcare workers, to develop recommendations for reducing noise in hospitals and to show why healthcare workers should be protected from noise exposure in hospitals. The study included a total of 80 healthcare workers from different units of the hospital who volunteered to ...
Huseyin Deniz, Elif Tugba Sarac
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