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”For this one, let me take the risk”: why surgical staff continued to perform caesarean sections during the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone

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  • Gustaf Drevin Centre for Research on Health Care in Disasters, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Helle Mölsted Alvesson Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alex van Duinen Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, NTNU Fakultet for ingeniorvitenskap og teknologi Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway Department of Surgery, Sankt Olavs Hospital Universitetssykehuset i Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Håkon A Bolkan Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, NTNU Fakultet for ingeniorvitenskap og teknologi Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway Department of Surgery, Sankt Olavs Hospital Universitetssykehuset i Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alimamy P Koroma Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Princess Christiana Maternity Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Johan Von Schreeb Centre for Research on Health Care in Disasters, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Gustaf Drevin; gustaf.drevin{at}gmail.com
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Drevin G, Mölsted Alvesson H, van Duinen A, et al
”For this one, let me take the risk”: why surgical staff continued to perform caesarean sections during the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone

Publication history

  • Received December 12, 2018
  • Revised May 28, 2019
  • Accepted June 1, 2019
  • First published July 19, 2019.
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July 19, 2019

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