The role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting.
Infect Dis Poverty
; 9(1): 104, 2020 Jul 23.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-672011
ABSTRACT
From December 25, 2019 to January 31, 2020, 33 cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were identified in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China, yet none of the affiliated HCWs was infected. Here we analyzed the infection control measures used in three different departments in the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and correlated the measures with the corresponding infection data of HCWs affiliated with these departments. We found that three infection control measures, namely the isolation of the presumed positive patients, the use of facemasks and intensified hand hygiene play important roles in preventing nosocomial transmission of COVID-19.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Patient Isolation
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Pneumonia, Viral
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Cross Infection
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Health Personnel
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Coronavirus Infections
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Pandemics
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Hand Hygiene
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Masks
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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Young adult
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Infect Dis Poverty
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S40249-020-00725-z
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