The utility of video technology and enhanced infection control in reducing COVID-19 disease burden in a custodial setting

We describe the use of video technology to enhance case interviews, identify COVID-19 contacts, and determine exposures risk within a large juvenile temporary detention center. We created a COVID-19 outbreak management protocol which included the formation of an outbreak management team and enhanced...

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Autores principales: Unruh, Larissa H, Dharmapuri, Sadhana, Soyemi, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33122094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.10.016
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description We describe the use of video technology to enhance case interviews, identify COVID-19 contacts, and determine exposures risk within a large juvenile temporary detention center. We created a COVID-19 outbreak management protocol which included the formation of an outbreak management team and enhanced infection control practices using video surveillance. Currently, our institution's positivity rate remains low for both staff and residents largely because of the outbreak management team. Video technology combined with enhanced infection control practices can be a useful technique to reduce COVID-19 infections in custodial settings.
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spelling pubmed-75870642020-10-27 The utility of video technology and enhanced infection control in reducing COVID-19 disease burden in a custodial setting Unruh, Larissa H Dharmapuri, Sadhana Soyemi, Kenneth Am J Infect Control Brief Report We describe the use of video technology to enhance case interviews, identify COVID-19 contacts, and determine exposures risk within a large juvenile temporary detention center. We created a COVID-19 outbreak management protocol which included the formation of an outbreak management team and enhanced infection control practices using video surveillance. Currently, our institution's positivity rate remains low for both staff and residents largely because of the outbreak management team. Video technology combined with enhanced infection control practices can be a useful technique to reduce COVID-19 infections in custodial settings. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-06 2020-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7587064/ /pubmed/33122094 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.10.016 Text en © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 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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