Design strategies to improve healthcare worker safety in biocontainment units: learning from ebola preparedness.

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To identify ways that the built environment may support or disrupt safe doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) in biocontainment units (BCU).

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Title: Infection control and hospital epidemiology

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

ISSN (Electronic): 1559-6834

ISSN (Print): 0899-823X

Publication date (Electronic): August 2018

Volume: 39

Issue: 8

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[1 ] 1SimTigrate Design Lab,School of Architecture,Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta,Georgia.

[2 ] 3School of Psychology,Georgia Institute of Technology,Atlanta,Georgia.

[3 ] 4Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine,Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta,Georgia.

[4 ] 6Division of Environmental Health,School of Public Health,Georgia State University,Atlanta,Georgia.

[5 ] 5Division of Infectious Diseases,Department of Medicine,Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta,Georgia.

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Publisher Item ID: S0899823X18001253

DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.125

PubMed ID: 29909821

SO-VID: a92b9e0d-d96e-40d2-8476-edf5cadb9b99

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