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Human Factors Risk Analyses of a Doffing Protocol for Ebola-Level Personal Protective Equipment: Mapping Errors to Contamination
Author(s) -
Joel Mumma,
Francis T. Durso,
Ashley N. Ferguson,
Christina L Gipson,
Lisa M. Casanova,
Kimberly Erukunuakpor,
Colleen S. Kraft,
Victoria Walsh,
Craig Zimring,
Jennifer R. DuBose,
Jesse T. Jacob
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cix957
Subject(s) - medicine , personal protective equipment , contamination , ebola virus , hygiene , infection control , health care , medical emergency , environmental health , emergency medicine , surgery , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , covid-19 , pathology , ecology , biology , economics , economic growth
This study conducted human factors risk analyses of a doffing protocol for Ebola-level personal protective equipment to identify and quantify the risk of errors made by healthcare workers, marked with surrogate viruses, while doffing and to predict rates of self-contamination.

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