We must rigorously follow basic infection control procedures to protect our healthcare workers from SARS-CoV-2

Because severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spreads easily and healthcare workers are at increased risk of both acquiring and transmitting infection, all healthcare facilities must rapidly and rigorously implement the full hierarchy of established infection controls: source con...

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Autores principales: Dooley, Samuel W., Frieden, Thomas R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7443559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32741405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.394
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spelling pubmed-74435592020-08-24 We must rigorously follow basic infection control procedures to protect our healthcare workers from SARS-CoV-2 Dooley, Samuel W. Frieden, Thomas R. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Commentary Because severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spreads easily and healthcare workers are at increased risk of both acquiring and transmitting infection, all healthcare facilities must rapidly and rigorously implement the full hierarchy of established infection controls: source control (removal or mitigation of infection sources), engineering and environmental controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment. Cambridge University Press 2020-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7443559/ /pubmed/32741405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.394 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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