Journal article
A qualitative study of the duty to care in communicable disease outbreaks
Abstract
Health care providers' (HCPs') duty to care during communicable disease outbreaks has resurfaced as an important and contentious topic. This renewed interest follows the re-emergence of communicable diseases, largely thought to have disappeared and therefore irrelevant to modern day practitioners. The 2003 SARS outbreak particularly presented propitious circumstances for reconsidering this issue. This study seeks to characterize the views of …
Authors
Bensimon CM; Tracy CS; Bernstein M; Shaul RZ; Upshur REG
Journal
Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 65, No. 12, pp. 2566–2575
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
December 2007
DOI
10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.07.017
ISSN
0277-9536