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Barriers to supportive care during the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa: Results of a qualitative study.

Christine LoignonElysée NouvetFrançois CouturierLynda BenhadjNeill K J AdhikariSrinivas MurthyRob A FowlerFrançois Lamontagne
Published in: PloS one (2018)
Our findings identified potentially modifiable barriers to the delivery of supportive care to patients with EVD in West Africa. Addressing these in the inter-outbreak period will be useful to improve patient care and outcomes during inevitable future outbreaks. Promoting community trust and engagement through long-term capacity building of the healthcare workforce and infrastructure would increase both health system resilience and ability to handle other outbreaks of emerging diseases.
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