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Infection control influence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: A hospital-based analysis
BACKGROUND: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) caused multiple outbreaks. Such outbreaks increase economic and infection control burdens. We studied the infection control influence of MERS-CoV using a hospital-based analysis. METHODS: Our hospital had 17 positive and 82 negative...
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Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30502108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2018.09.015 |
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author | Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A. Abdrabalnabi, Rana Taher, Alla Mathew, Shantymole Rahman, Kamal Abdul |
author_facet | Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A. Abdrabalnabi, Rana Taher, Alla Mathew, Shantymole Rahman, Kamal Abdul |
author_sort | Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) caused multiple outbreaks. Such outbreaks increase economic and infection control burdens. We studied the infection control influence of MERS-CoV using a hospital-based analysis. METHODS: Our hospital had 17 positive and 82 negative cases of MERS-CoV between April 1, 2013, and June 3, 2013. The study evaluated the impact of these cases on the use of gloves, surgical masks, N95 respirators, alcohol-based hand sanitizer, and soap, as well as hand hygiene compliance rates. RESULTS: During the study, the use of personal protective equipment during MERS-CoV compared with theperiod before MERS-CoV increased dramatically from 2,947.4 to 10,283.9 per 1,000 patient-days (P<.0000001) for surgical masks and from 22 to 232 per 1,000 patient-days (P <.0000001) for N95 masks. The use of alcohol-based hand sanitizer and soap showed a significant increase in utilized amount (P<.0000001). Hand hygiene compliance rates increased from 73% just before the occurrence of the first MERS case to 88% during MERS cases (P = .0001). The monthly added cost was $16,400 for included infection control items. CONCLUSIONS: There was a significant increase in the utilization of surgical masks, respirators, soap and alcohol-based hand sanitizers. Such an increase is a challenge and adds cost to the healthcare system. |
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spelling | pubmed-71153282020-04-02 Infection control influence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: A hospital-based analysis Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A. Abdrabalnabi, Rana Taher, Alla Mathew, Shantymole Rahman, Kamal Abdul Am J Infect Control Major Article BACKGROUND: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) caused multiple outbreaks. Such outbreaks increase economic and infection control burdens. We studied the infection control influence of MERS-CoV using a hospital-based analysis. METHODS: Our hospital had 17 positive and 82 negative cases of MERS-CoV between April 1, 2013, and June 3, 2013. The study evaluated the impact of these cases on the use of gloves, surgical masks, N95 respirators, alcohol-based hand sanitizer, and soap, as well as hand hygiene compliance rates. RESULTS: During the study, the use of personal protective equipment during MERS-CoV compared with theperiod before MERS-CoV increased dramatically from 2,947.4 to 10,283.9 per 1,000 patient-days (P<.0000001) for surgical masks and from 22 to 232 per 1,000 patient-days (P <.0000001) for N95 masks. The use of alcohol-based hand sanitizer and soap showed a significant increase in utilized amount (P<.0000001). Hand hygiene compliance rates increased from 73% just before the occurrence of the first MERS case to 88% during MERS cases (P = .0001). The monthly added cost was $16,400 for included infection control items. CONCLUSIONS: There was a significant increase in the utilization of surgical masks, respirators, soap and alcohol-based hand sanitizers. Such an increase is a challenge and adds cost to the healthcare system. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2019-04 2018-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7115328/ /pubmed/30502108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2018.09.015 Text en © 2018 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Major Article Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A. Abdrabalnabi, Rana Taher, Alla Mathew, Shantymole Rahman, Kamal Abdul Infection control influence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: A hospital-based analysis |
title | Infection control influence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: A hospital-based analysis |
title_full | Infection control influence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: A hospital-based analysis |
title_fullStr | Infection control influence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: A hospital-based analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Infection control influence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: A hospital-based analysis |
title_short | Infection control influence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: A hospital-based analysis |
title_sort | infection control influence of middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus: a hospital-based analysis |
topic | Major Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115328/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30502108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2018.09.015 |
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