A comprehensive systematic review of healthcare workers’ perceptions of risk from exposure to emerging acute respiratory infectious diseases and the perceived effectiveness of strategies used to facilitate healthy coping in acute hospital and community healthcare settings

Background: Emerging acute respiratory infectious diseases, such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Avian Influenza A/H5N1 virus are contagious with high morbidity and mortality rates. Hence, health care workers, who are in close contact with affected patients, face many risks. Ther...

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Main Authors: Yiwen, K., Hegney, Desley, Drury, Vicki
Format: Journal Article
Published: University of Adelaide 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3978