The role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting

From December 25, 2019 to January 31, 2020, 33 cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were identified in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China, yet none of the affiliated HCWs was infected. Here we analyzed the infection co...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Gu-Qin, Pan, Hua-Qin, Hu, Xing-Xing, He, Shao-Jun, Chen, Yi-Fei, Wei, Chao-Jie, Ni, Lan, Zhang, Li-Ping, Cheng, Zhen-Shun, Yang, Jiong
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7376530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32703281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00725-z
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author Zhang, Gu-Qin
Pan, Hua-Qin
Hu, Xing-Xing
He, Shao-Jun
Chen, Yi-Fei
Wei, Chao-Jie
Ni, Lan
Zhang, Li-Ping
Cheng, Zhen-Shun
Yang, Jiong
author_facet Zhang, Gu-Qin
Pan, Hua-Qin
Hu, Xing-Xing
He, Shao-Jun
Chen, Yi-Fei
Wei, Chao-Jie
Ni, Lan
Zhang, Li-Ping
Cheng, Zhen-Shun
Yang, Jiong
author_sort Zhang, Gu-Qin
collection PubMed
description From December 25, 2019 to January 31, 2020, 33 cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were identified in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China, yet none of the affiliated HCWs was infected. Here we analyzed the infection control measures used in three different departments in the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and correlated the measures with the corresponding infection data of HCWs affiliated with these departments. We found that three infection control measures, namely the isolation of the presumed positive patients, the use of facemasks and intensified hand hygiene play important roles in preventing nosocomial transmission of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-73765302020-07-23 The role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting Zhang, Gu-Qin Pan, Hua-Qin Hu, Xing-Xing He, Shao-Jun Chen, Yi-Fei Wei, Chao-Jie Ni, Lan Zhang, Li-Ping Cheng, Zhen-Shun Yang, Jiong Infect Dis Poverty Short Report From December 25, 2019 to January 31, 2020, 33 cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were identified in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, China, yet none of the affiliated HCWs was infected. Here we analyzed the infection control measures used in three different departments in the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and correlated the measures with the corresponding infection data of HCWs affiliated with these departments. We found that three infection control measures, namely the isolation of the presumed positive patients, the use of facemasks and intensified hand hygiene play important roles in preventing nosocomial transmission of COVID-19. BioMed Central 2020-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7376530/ /pubmed/32703281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00725-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Short Report
Zhang, Gu-Qin
Pan, Hua-Qin
Hu, Xing-Xing
He, Shao-Jun
Chen, Yi-Fei
Wei, Chao-Jie
Ni, Lan
Zhang, Li-Ping
Cheng, Zhen-Shun
Yang, Jiong
The role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting
title The role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting
title_full The role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting
title_fullStr The role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting
title_full_unstemmed The role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting
title_short The role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting
title_sort role of isolation rooms, facemasks and intensified hand hygiene in the prevention of nosocomial covid-19 transmission in a pulmonary clinical setting
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7376530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32703281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00725-z
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