Designing a biocontainment unit
Early involvement of the frontline staff is crucial to creating a unit that meets the complex safety, operational, and psychological needs of clinicians, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website
Early involvement of the frontline staff is crucial to creating a biocontainment unit that meets the complex safety, operational, and psychological needs of clinicians, according to an article on the Healthcare Design website. Lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak are helping guide the design of the next generation of biocontainment patient care units.
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March 4, 2016
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Safety
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