Medical waste management practice during the 2019-2020 novel coronavirus pandemic: Experience in a general hospital

It is currently a critical period for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the medical waste disposal could be an important way to control the source of infection, standardization, and strict implementation of the management of COVID-19 related medical waste should be with care...

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Autores principales: Peng, Jie, Wu, Xunlian, Wang, Rongli, Li, Cui, Zhang, Qing, Wei, Daiqing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Practice Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7267792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32504761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.05.035
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author Peng, Jie
Wu, Xunlian
Wang, Rongli
Li, Cui
Zhang, Qing
Wei, Daiqing
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description It is currently a critical period for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the medical waste disposal could be an important way to control the source of infection, standardization, and strict implementation of the management of COVID-19 related medical waste should be with careful consideration to reduce the risk of epidemic within hospitals. This study illustrates the practice of medical waste disposal responding to the 2019-2020 novel coronavirus pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-72677922020-06-03 Medical waste management practice during the 2019-2020 novel coronavirus pandemic: Experience in a general hospital Peng, Jie Wu, Xunlian Wang, Rongli Li, Cui Zhang, Qing Wei, Daiqing Am J Infect Control Practice Forum It is currently a critical period for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the medical waste disposal could be an important way to control the source of infection, standardization, and strict implementation of the management of COVID-19 related medical waste should be with careful consideration to reduce the risk of epidemic within hospitals. This study illustrates the practice of medical waste disposal responding to the 2019-2020 novel coronavirus pandemic. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-08 2020-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7267792/ /pubmed/32504761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.05.035 Text en © 2020 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.
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Medical waste management practice during the 2019-2020 novel coronavirus pandemic: Experience in a general hospital
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