Shifting the Paradigm - Applying Universal Standards of Care to Ebola Virus Disease

William A Fischer¹, Ian Crozier¹, Daniel G Bausch¹+6

• ¹From the Divisions of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (W.A.F.) and Infectious Diseases (D.A.W.), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill; Integrated Research Facility, Clinical Monitoring Research Program Directorate, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD (I.C.); the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, Public Health England, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (D.G.B.), and the Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool (S.T.J.) - all in the United Kingdom; Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale and Département de Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Kinshasa - both in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (J.-J.M., S.M.); the Clinical Management Team, Health Emergencies Program, World Health Organization, Geneva (J.V.D.); and the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA), Dakar, Senegal (R.K.).