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Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Health-care workers are crucial to any health-care system. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers are at a substantially increased risk of becoming infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and could come to considerable harm as a result. Depending...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7377794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32711692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30458-8 |
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author | Bielicki, Julia A Duval, Xavier Gobat, Nina Goossens, Herman Koopmans, Marion Tacconelli, Evelina van der Werf, Sylvie |
author_facet | Bielicki, Julia A Duval, Xavier Gobat, Nina Goossens, Herman Koopmans, Marion Tacconelli, Evelina van der Werf, Sylvie |
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description | Health-care workers are crucial to any health-care system. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers are at a substantially increased risk of becoming infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and could come to considerable harm as a result. Depending on the phase of the pandemic, patients with COVID-19 might not be the main source of SARS-CoV-2 infection and health-care workers could be exposed to atypical patients, infected family members, contacts, and colleagues, or live in communities of active transmission. Clear strategies to support and appropriately manage exposed and infected health-care workers are essential to ensure effective staff management and to engender trust in the workplace. These management strategies should focus on risk stratification, suitable clinical monitoring, low-threshold access to diagnostics, and decision making about removal from and return to work. Policy makers need to support health-care facilities in interpreting guidance during a pandemic that will probably be characterised by fluctuating local incidence of SARS-CoV-2 to mitigate the impact of this pandemic on their workforce. |
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spelling | pubmed-73777942020-07-24 Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic Bielicki, Julia A Duval, Xavier Gobat, Nina Goossens, Herman Koopmans, Marion Tacconelli, Evelina van der Werf, Sylvie Lancet Infect Dis Personal View Health-care workers are crucial to any health-care system. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers are at a substantially increased risk of becoming infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and could come to considerable harm as a result. Depending on the phase of the pandemic, patients with COVID-19 might not be the main source of SARS-CoV-2 infection and health-care workers could be exposed to atypical patients, infected family members, contacts, and colleagues, or live in communities of active transmission. Clear strategies to support and appropriately manage exposed and infected health-care workers are essential to ensure effective staff management and to engender trust in the workplace. These management strategies should focus on risk stratification, suitable clinical monitoring, low-threshold access to diagnostics, and decision making about removal from and return to work. Policy makers need to support health-care facilities in interpreting guidance during a pandemic that will probably be characterised by fluctuating local incidence of SARS-CoV-2 to mitigate the impact of this pandemic on their workforce. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-10 2020-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7377794/ /pubmed/32711692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30458-8 Text en © 2020 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. |
spellingShingle | Personal View Bielicki, Julia A Duval, Xavier Gobat, Nina Goossens, Herman Koopmans, Marion Tacconelli, Evelina van der Werf, Sylvie Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Personal View |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7377794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32711692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30458-8 |
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