Can Disinfection Robots Reduce the Risk of Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Health Care and Educational Settings?

We explore the opportunities and challenges surrounding the use of disinfection robots to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in health care and educational settings. Although there is some potential for deploying robots to help with manual cleaning, the evidence base is mixed, and we highlig...

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Autores principales: Cresswell, Kathrin, Sheikh, Aziz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7511221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32903196
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/20896
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spelling pubmed-75112212020-10-05 Can Disinfection Robots Reduce the Risk of Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Health Care and Educational Settings? Cresswell, Kathrin Sheikh, Aziz J Med Internet Res Viewpoint We explore the opportunities and challenges surrounding the use of disinfection robots to reduce the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in health care and educational settings. Although there is some potential for deploying robots to help with manual cleaning, the evidence base is mixed, and we highlight that there needs to be work to establish and enhance the effectiveness of these robots in inactivating the virus. JMIR Publications 2020-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7511221/ /pubmed/32903196 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/20896 Text en ©Kathrin Cresswell, Aziz Sheikh. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 15.09.2020. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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