Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity

We performed a cross-sectional survey of infection preventionists in 60 US community hospitals between April 22 and May 8, 2020. Several differences in hospital preparedness for SARS-CoV-2 emerged with respect to personal protective equipment conservation strategies, protocols related to testing, un...

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Autores principales: Advani, Sonali D., Baker, Esther, Cromer, Andrea, Wood, Brittain, Crawford, Kathryn L., Crane, Linda, Adcock, Linda, Roach, Linda, Padgette, Polly, Anderson, Deverick J., Sexton, Daniel J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7582016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33023688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1238
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author Advani, Sonali D.
Baker, Esther
Cromer, Andrea
Wood, Brittain
Crawford, Kathryn L.
Crane, Linda
Adcock, Linda
Roach, Linda
Padgette, Polly
Anderson, Deverick J.
Sexton, Daniel J.
author_facet Advani, Sonali D.
Baker, Esther
Cromer, Andrea
Wood, Brittain
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Adcock, Linda
Roach, Linda
Padgette, Polly
Anderson, Deverick J.
Sexton, Daniel J.
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description We performed a cross-sectional survey of infection preventionists in 60 US community hospitals between April 22 and May 8, 2020. Several differences in hospital preparedness for SARS-CoV-2 emerged with respect to personal protective equipment conservation strategies, protocols related to testing, universal masking, and restarting elective procedures.
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spelling pubmed-75820162020-10-27 Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity Advani, Sonali D. Baker, Esther Cromer, Andrea Wood, Brittain Crawford, Kathryn L. Crane, Linda Adcock, Linda Roach, Linda Padgette, Polly Anderson, Deverick J. Sexton, Daniel J. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication We performed a cross-sectional survey of infection preventionists in 60 US community hospitals between April 22 and May 8, 2020. Several differences in hospital preparedness for SARS-CoV-2 emerged with respect to personal protective equipment conservation strategies, protocols related to testing, universal masking, and restarting elective procedures. Cambridge University Press 2020-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7582016/ /pubmed/33023688 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1238 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.
spellingShingle Concise Communication
Advani, Sonali D.
Baker, Esther
Cromer, Andrea
Wood, Brittain
Crawford, Kathryn L.
Crane, Linda
Adcock, Linda
Roach, Linda
Padgette, Polly
Anderson, Deverick J.
Sexton, Daniel J.
Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity
title Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity
title_full Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity
title_fullStr Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity
title_full_unstemmed Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity
title_short Assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) preparedness in US community hospitals: A forgotten entity
title_sort assessing severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (sars-cov-2) preparedness in us community hospitals: a forgotten entity
topic Concise Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7582016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33023688
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1238
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