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Performance of a Novel Non–Fit-Tested HEPA Filtering Face Mask

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2017

Constance Yung Ting Hui
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong.
Czarina Chi Hung Leung
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong.
Charles David Gomersall*
Affiliation:
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong.
*
Address correspondence to Charles Gomersall, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong (gomersall@cuhk.edu.hk).

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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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