Nosocomial COVID-19: experience from a large acute NHS Trust in South-West London

Transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in healthcare settings has significant implications for patients and healthcare workers, may amplify local outbreaks, and may place additional burden on already stretched resources. Risk of missed or late diagnosis of COVID-19 was high during the U...

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Autores principales: Taylor, J., Rangaiah, J., Narasimhan, S., Clark, J., Alexander, Z., Manuel, R., Balasegaram, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Healthcare Infection Society. 2020
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7443059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32841703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.08.018
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author Taylor, J.
Rangaiah, J.
Narasimhan, S.
Clark, J.
Alexander, Z.
Manuel, R.
Balasegaram, S.
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description Transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in healthcare settings has significant implications for patients and healthcare workers, may amplify local outbreaks, and may place additional burden on already stretched resources. Risk of missed or late diagnosis of COVID-19 was high during the UK's initial ‘containment phase’, because of strict criteria for testing. The risk remains due to asymptomatic/pre-symptomatic transmission, complicated by challenges faced with laboratory testing. We present a case study of potential nosocomial transmission associated with the first case of COVID-19 at a large acute NHS Trust in South-West London, and we describe the prevailing burden of nosocomial infections.
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spelling pubmed-74430592020-08-24 Nosocomial COVID-19: experience from a large acute NHS Trust in South-West London Taylor, J. Rangaiah, J. Narasimhan, S. Clark, J. Alexander, Z. Manuel, R. Balasegaram, S. J Hosp Infect Short Report Transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in healthcare settings has significant implications for patients and healthcare workers, may amplify local outbreaks, and may place additional burden on already stretched resources. Risk of missed or late diagnosis of COVID-19 was high during the UK's initial ‘containment phase’, because of strict criteria for testing. The risk remains due to asymptomatic/pre-symptomatic transmission, complicated by challenges faced with laboratory testing. We present a case study of potential nosocomial transmission associated with the first case of COVID-19 at a large acute NHS Trust in South-West London, and we describe the prevailing burden of nosocomial infections. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Healthcare Infection Society. 2020-11 2020-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7443059/ /pubmed/32841703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.08.018 Text en Crown Copyright © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Healthcare Infection Society. 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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Nosocomial COVID-19: experience from a large acute NHS Trust in South-West London
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7443059/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.08.018
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