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Non-COVID area of a tertiary care hospital: A major source of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission

COVID-19 pandemic has spread to all corners of the world where infection control measures are being implemented. There is now a resurgence of the disease in health care facilities with documented in-hospital transmission and cases becoming positive in areas designated to cater for COVID-19 negative...

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Autores principales: Meena, Mahendra K., Singh, Mahendra, Panda, Prasan K., Bairwa, Mukesh K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7745785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354153
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfcm.JFCM_285_20
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description COVID-19 pandemic has spread to all corners of the world where infection control measures are being implemented. There is now a resurgence of the disease in health care facilities with documented in-hospital transmission and cases becoming positive in areas designated to cater for COVID-19 negative patients. We encountered such an event at our institution where fourteen patients (including health care workers) in the non-COVID zone were found to be COVID-19 positive. This highlights the loopholes in the system and the need for better and systematic infection control measures in hospitals that deal with infectious diseases with high infectivity. Findings also suggests the failure of government's criteria for suspected COVID-19 cases, and therefore needs a rethinking.
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spelling pubmed-77457852020-12-21 Non-COVID area of a tertiary care hospital: A major source of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission Meena, Mahendra K. Singh, Mahendra Panda, Prasan K. Bairwa, Mukesh K. J Family Community Med Short Communication COVID-19 pandemic has spread to all corners of the world where infection control measures are being implemented. There is now a resurgence of the disease in health care facilities with documented in-hospital transmission and cases becoming positive in areas designated to cater for COVID-19 negative patients. We encountered such an event at our institution where fourteen patients (including health care workers) in the non-COVID zone were found to be COVID-19 positive. This highlights the loopholes in the system and the need for better and systematic infection control measures in hospitals that deal with infectious diseases with high infectivity. Findings also suggests the failure of government's criteria for suspected COVID-19 cases, and therefore needs a rethinking. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7745785/ /pubmed/33354153 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfcm.JFCM_285_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family and Community Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title Non-COVID area of a tertiary care hospital: A major source of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission
title_full Non-COVID area of a tertiary care hospital: A major source of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission
title_fullStr Non-COVID area of a tertiary care hospital: A major source of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission
title_full_unstemmed Non-COVID area of a tertiary care hospital: A major source of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission
title_short Non-COVID area of a tertiary care hospital: A major source of nosocomial COVID-19 transmission
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7745785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33354153
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfcm.JFCM_285_20
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