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A Description of Infection Control Structure in Primary Dental Health Care, Brazil.
da Fonseca, Emílio Prado; Pereira-Junior, Edmilson Antônio; Palmier, Andréa Clemente; Abreu, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães.
  • da Fonseca EP; Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  • Pereira-Junior EA; Faculty of Education, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  • Palmier AC; Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  • Abreu MHNG; Department of Community and Preventive Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Biomed Res Int ; 2021: 5369133, 2021.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1348197
ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE:

This study is aimed at describing a score to assess infection control structures in Oral Health Teams (OHT) in Primary Health Care (PHC) in Brazil.

METHODS:

Secondary data from a national external evaluation of PHC conducted in 2017 and 2018 were analyzed. The construction of the score used 14 variables, divided into the following structural characteristics of the PHC, infection control equipment under conditions of use, and biosafety supplies in sufficient quantity. The questions were mostly dichotomous (yes/no). Descriptive analyses were carried out to characterize the OHT and factor analyses to reduce the number of observed variables to a specific number of factors.

RESULTS:

Among 20,301 health units with OHT, 4,510 (22.2%) units did not have washable floors, ceilings, and walls; 8,406 (41.4%) did not have a sealer; 16,780 (82.7%) did not have taps with noncontact activation, and 4,663 (23.0%) units did not have rubber gloves. Regarding personal protective equipment (PPE), 1,618 (8.0%) units did not have a sufficient quantity of basic PPE. Three factors were defined to explain the 14 evaluated variables. The South region had the best score of infection control, while the North had the worst.

CONCLUSIONS:

Regional inequalities in the failures in infection control structures identified in PHC with OHT were related to the physical structure, equipment, and supplies used for infection control and the absence of PPE for OHT.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Dental Care / Infection Control / Personal Protective Equipment Type of study: Experimental Studies / Prognostic study Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Brazil Language: English Journal: Biomed Res Int Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: 2021

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Dental Care / Infection Control / Personal Protective Equipment Type of study: Experimental Studies / Prognostic study Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: South America / Brazil Language: English Journal: Biomed Res Int Year: 2021 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: 2021