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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2017

Febrile illness in healthcare workers caring for Ebola virus disease patients in a high-resource setting.

Douglas Fink, Ian Cropley, Michael Jacobs, Stephen Mepham

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Douglas FinkDepartment of Infection, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Ian CropleyDepartment of Infection, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Michael JacobsDepartment of Infection, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Stephen MephamDepartment of Infection, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ebola virus disease (EVD) patients treated in high-resource facilities are cared for by large numbers of healthcare staff. Monitoring these healthcare workers (HCWs) for any illness that may represent transmission of Ebola virus is important both for the individuals and to minimise the community risk. International policies for monitoring HCWs vary considerably and their effectiveness is unknown. Here we describe the United Kingdom (UK) experience of illness in HCWs who cared for three patients who acquired EVD in West Africa. Five of these 93 high-level isolation unit (HLIU) HCWs presented with fever within 21 days of working on the unit; one of these five presented outside of the UK. This article discusses different approaches to monitoring of HCW symptom reporting. The potential impact of these approaches on HLIU staff recruitment, including travel restrictions, is also considered. An international surveillance system enhancing collaboration between national public health authorities may assist HLIU HCW monitoring in case they travel.

Indexed as

Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalAfrica, WesternDisease OutbreaksEbolavirusFemaleFeverHealth PersonnelHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaHumansIncidenceInternational CooperationMaleOccupational DiseasesUnited KingdomEbolafebrile illnesshealthcare workermonitoring

Identifiers

PMID28182538
PMCPMC5388091
OpenAlexW2586463314

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