Improving staff safety with checklists during novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: A quasi-experiment study in vascular surgical department.
Medicine (Baltimore)
; 99(32): e21548, 2020 Aug 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-705597
ABSTRACT
Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan in December 2019, has spread in many countries affected people globally. In response to the economic requirement of the nation and meet the need of patient's, a momentous event was going back to work step by step as fighting against COVID-19. Safety in clinical work is of priority as elective surgery in the department of surgery progressing. We used checklists based on our experiences on COVID-19 control and reality of clinical work from February to March in the West China Hospital, involving events of screening patient, chaperonage, and healthcare workers. Checklist summarized the actual clinical nursing work and management practices, hope to provide a reference for the order of surgery during the epidemic prevention and control, and standardize the clinical nursing work of surgery during pandemic.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Vascular Surgical Procedures
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Infection Control
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Elective Surgical Procedures
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Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional
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Coronavirus Infections
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Checklist
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Pandemics
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Medicine (Baltimore)
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
MD.0000000000021548
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