The predicament of patients with suspected Ebola.

Lancet Glob Health

USF Program for Comparative Research Effectiveness, Division of Evidence-Based Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA; H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA.

Published: July 2017

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