B Gamage, D Moore, R Copes, A Yassi, E Bryce - AJIC: American Journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was responsible for outbreaks in Canada,
China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Singapore. SARS focused attention on the adequacy of and
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- ►upbatam.ac.id [PDF] K Shaw - Public Health, 2006 - Elsevier The causative agent of SARS was identified as a novel coronavirus, the SARS coronavirus. This
was largely spread by direct or indirect contact with large respiratory droplets, although airborne
transmission has also been reported. High infection rates among HCWs led initially to the ... Cited by 26 - Related articles - All 12 versions
- ►psu.edu [PDF] JTF Lau, X Yang, PC Leung, L Chan, E Wong, … - Emerg Infect …, 2004 - members.medscape.com We analyzed attack rates for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in three categories of
hospital workers (nurses, nonmedical support staff, and other technical or medical staff) in all
public hospitals in Hong Kong that had admitted SARS patients. Of 16 such hospitals, 14 ... Cited by 26 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
- ►hopkins-cepar.org [PDF] GD Kelen, CK Kraus, ML McCarthy, E Bass, EB Hsu, G … - The Lancet, 2006 - Elsevier The ability to provide medical care during sudden increases in patient volume during a disaster
or other high-consequence event is a serious concern for health-care systems. Identification
of inpatients for safe early discharge (ie, reverse triage) could create additional hospital ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - All 15 versions
RP Wenzel, MB Edmond - Annals of internal medicine, 2003 - Am Coll Physicians Throughout recorded history, epidemics have relentlessly descended on societies, disturbing
their previous harmony. Yet the arrival of these epidemics is usually greeted with disbelief as
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M Chan-Yeung - Int J Occup Environ Health, 2004 - canprep.ca The recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory syn- drome (SARS) was spread by international
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- ►ajtmh.org H Nishiura, T Kuratsuji, T Quy, NC Phi, BAN VAN … - The American journal of …, 2005 - ASTMH A case-control study was conducted to examine the relationship between severe acute respiratory
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AC Mehta, U Prakash, R Garland, E Haponik, L … - Chest, 2005 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Flexible bronchoscopy (FB) is one of the most common and useful procedures performed by
chest clinicians, with > 500,000 procedures performed annually in the United States. 1 FB is
performed frequently in immunocompromised patients and in health-care settings where ... Cited by 21 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
A Srinivasan, LC McDonald, D Jernigan, R … - Infection Control and …, 2004 - UChicago Press Arjun Srinivasan, MD; Lawrence C. McDonald, MD, MPH; Daniel Jernigan, MD, MPH; Rita
Helfand, MD, MPH; Kathleen Ginsheimer, MD, MPH; John Jernigan, MD, MPH; Linda
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work; and escalating costs plague the health- care systems.1 In British Columbia (BC),
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