Do established infection prevention and control measures prevent spread of SARS-CoV-2 to the hospital environment beyond the patient room?

The role of the hospital environment in the transmission of infection is well described. With an emerging infection whose mode of transmission is under investigation, strict infection prevention and control measures, including patient isolation, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment that is do...

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Autores principales: Jerry, J., O'Regan, E., O'Sullivan, L., Lynch, M., Brady, D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32590011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.06.026
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spelling pubmed-73099282020-06-23 Do established infection prevention and control measures prevent spread of SARS-CoV-2 to the hospital environment beyond the patient room? Jerry, J. O'Regan, E. O'Sullivan, L. Lynch, M. Brady, D. J Hosp Infect Article The role of the hospital environment in the transmission of infection is well described. With an emerging infection whose mode of transmission is under investigation, strict infection prevention and control measures, including patient isolation, hand hygiene, personal protective equipment that is doffed on exiting the patient room, and environmental cleaning should be implemented to prevent spread. Environmental testing demonstrated that COVID-19 patients contaminated the patient area (11/26, 42.3% of tests) but contamination of general ward areas was minimal (1/30, 3%) and the virus was detected after cleaning on one item only (1/25, 4%) which was noted to be in disrepair. The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-08 2020-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7309928/ /pubmed/32590011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.06.026 Text en © 2020 The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 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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