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Recommendations for protecting against and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care facilities
The COVID-19 outbreak has drawn heightened attention from public health scholars researching ways to limit its spread. Much of the research has been focused on minimizing transmission in hospitals and in the general community. However, a particularly vulnerable community that has received relatively...
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Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32303480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2020.04.003 |
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author | Yen, Muh-Yong Schwartz, Jonathan King, Chwan-Chuen Lee, Chung-Ming Hsueh, Po-Ren |
author_facet | Yen, Muh-Yong Schwartz, Jonathan King, Chwan-Chuen Lee, Chung-Ming Hsueh, Po-Ren |
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description | The COVID-19 outbreak has drawn heightened attention from public health scholars researching ways to limit its spread. Much of the research has been focused on minimizing transmission in hospitals and in the general community. However, a particularly vulnerable community that has received relatively little attention is elders residing in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). In this article we address this relative lack of attention, arguing that enhanced traffic control bundling (eTCB) can and should be adopted and implemented as a means of protecting LTCF residents and staff. Enhanced TCB has been widely applied in hospital settings and has proven effective at limiting droplet and fomite transmissions both within hospitals and between hospitals and the general community. By effectively adapting eTCB to LTCF conditions, particularly by incorporating compartmentalization within zones plus active surveillance, COVID-19 transmission into and throughout LTCFs can be minimized, thereby saving numerous lives among an especially vulnerable population. |
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spelling | pubmed-71949762020-05-02 Recommendations for protecting against and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care facilities Yen, Muh-Yong Schwartz, Jonathan King, Chwan-Chuen Lee, Chung-Ming Hsueh, Po-Ren J Microbiol Immunol Infect Article The COVID-19 outbreak has drawn heightened attention from public health scholars researching ways to limit its spread. Much of the research has been focused on minimizing transmission in hospitals and in the general community. However, a particularly vulnerable community that has received relatively little attention is elders residing in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). In this article we address this relative lack of attention, arguing that enhanced traffic control bundling (eTCB) can and should be adopted and implemented as a means of protecting LTCF residents and staff. Enhanced TCB has been widely applied in hospital settings and has proven effective at limiting droplet and fomite transmissions both within hospitals and between hospitals and the general community. By effectively adapting eTCB to LTCF conditions, particularly by incorporating compartmentalization within zones plus active surveillance, COVID-19 transmission into and throughout LTCFs can be minimized, thereby saving numerous lives among an especially vulnerable population. Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 2020-06 2020-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7194976/ /pubmed/32303480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2020.04.003 Text en © 2020 Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 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 | Article Yen, Muh-Yong Schwartz, Jonathan King, Chwan-Chuen Lee, Chung-Ming Hsueh, Po-Ren Recommendations for protecting against and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care facilities |
title | Recommendations for protecting against and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care facilities |
title_full | Recommendations for protecting against and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care facilities |
title_fullStr | Recommendations for protecting against and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care facilities |
title_full_unstemmed | Recommendations for protecting against and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care facilities |
title_short | Recommendations for protecting against and mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in long-term care facilities |
title_sort | recommendations for protecting against and mitigating the covid-19 pandemic in long-term care facilities |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32303480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2020.04.003 |
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