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Infection prevention and control of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, 2014–2015: key challenges and successes

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, January 2016
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Title
Infection prevention and control of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, 2014–2015: key challenges and successes
Published in
BMC Medicine, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12916-015-0548-4
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Authors

Catherine Cooper, Dale Fisher, Neil Gupta, Rose MaCauley, Carmem L. Pessoa-Silva

Abstract

Prior to the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak, infection prevention and control (IPC) activities in Liberian healthcare facilities were basic. There was no national IPC guidance, nor dedicated staff at any level of government or healthcare facility (HCF) to ensure the implementation of best practices. Efforts to improve IPC early in the outbreak were ad hoc and messaging was inconsistent. In September 2014, at the height of the outbreak, the national IPC Task Force was established with a Ministry of Health (MoH) mandate to coordinate IPC response activities. A steering group of the Task Force, including representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), supported MoH leadership in implementing standardized messaging and IPC training for the health workforce. This structure, and the activities implemented under this structure, played a crucial role in the implementation of IPC practices and successful containment of the outbreak. Moving forward, a nationwide culture of IPC needs to be maintained through this governance structure in Liberia's health system to prevent and respond to future outbreaks.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Sierra Leone 1 <1%
Grenada 1 <1%
Unknown 121 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 22%
Researcher 17 14%
Student > Bachelor 15 12%
Other 11 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 5%
Other 20 16%
Unknown 27 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 12%
Social Sciences 13 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 4%
Other 18 15%
Unknown 27 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 11 August 2023.
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#6,591,722
of 24,374,350 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,526
of 3,752 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#100,013
of 402,639 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#31
of 52 outputs
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