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Strategy and technology to prevent hospital-acquired infections: Lessons from SARS, Ebola, and MERS in Asia and West Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Military Medical Research, October 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#44 of 443)
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (77th percentile)

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Title
Strategy and technology to prevent hospital-acquired infections: Lessons from SARS, Ebola, and MERS in Asia and West Africa
Published in
Military Medical Research, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40779-017-0142-5
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Authors

Sanjeewa Jayachandra Rajakaruna, Wen-Bin Liu, Yi-Bo Ding, Guang-Wen Cao

Abstract

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are serious problems for healthcare systems, especially in developing countries where public health infrastructure and technology for infection preventions remain undeveloped. Here, we characterized how strategy and technology could be mobilized to improve the effectiveness of infection prevention and control in hospitals during the outbreaks of Ebola, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Asia and West Africa. Published literature on the hospital-borne outbreaks of SARS, Ebola, and MERS in Asia and West Africa was comprehensively reviewed. The results showed that healthcare systems and hospital management in affected healthcare facilities had poor strategies and inadequate technologies and human resources for the prevention and control of HAIs, which led to increased morbidity, mortality, and unnecessary costs. We recommend that governments worldwide enforce disaster risk management, even when no outbreaks are imminent. Quarantine and ventilation functions should be taken into consideration in architectural design of hospitals and healthcare facilities. We also recommend that health authorities invest in training healthcare workers for disease outbreak response, as their preparedness is essential to reducing disaster risk.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 224 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 16%
Researcher 25 11%
Student > Bachelor 23 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 5%
Lecturer 11 5%
Other 44 20%
Unknown 74 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 42 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 29 13%
Social Sciences 8 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 3%
Environmental Science 7 3%
Other 53 24%
Unknown 78 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 May 2020.
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#2,656,785
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Outputs from Military Medical Research
#44
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#50,378
of 339,185 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Military Medical Research
#2
of 9 outputs
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