Physical distancing for care delivery in health care settings: Considerations and consequences

As health care systems explore new ways of delivering care for patients with and without COVID-19, they must consider how to maintain physical distancing among health care workers and patients. Physical distancing in high complexity systems such as health care is particularly challenging and may ben...

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Autores principales: Parmasad, Vishala, Keating, Julie A., Carayon, Pascale, Safdar, Nasia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7759337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33359551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.12.014
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spelling pubmed-77593372020-12-28 Physical distancing for care delivery in health care settings: Considerations and consequences Parmasad, Vishala Keating, Julie A. Carayon, Pascale Safdar, Nasia Am J Infect Control Brief Report As health care systems explore new ways of delivering care for patients with and without COVID-19, they must consider how to maintain physical distancing among health care workers and patients. Physical distancing in high complexity systems such as health care is particularly challenging and may benefit from a human factors and systems engineering perspective. We discuss challenges to implementing and maintaining physical distancing in health care settings and present possible solutions from a human factors and systems engineering perspective. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 2021-08 2020-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7759337/ /pubmed/33359551 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.12.014 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 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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