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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Professionals and Oral Care Operational Services: A Systemic Review
The unprecedented climate of the COVID-19 pandemic has some restrictions on oral care operational services, which heavily impacted the delivery of aerosol generating procedures (AGPs). This led the health authorities to set up guidelines and policies that should be followed to minimize the virus spr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33568961 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S284557 |
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author | Bordea, Ioana Roxana Candrea, Sebastian Sălăgean, Tudor Pop, Ioana Delia Lucaciu, Ondine Ilea, Aranka Manole, Marius Băbțan, Anida-Maria Sirbu, Adina Hanna, Reem |
author_facet | Bordea, Ioana Roxana Candrea, Sebastian Sălăgean, Tudor Pop, Ioana Delia Lucaciu, Ondine Ilea, Aranka Manole, Marius Băbțan, Anida-Maria Sirbu, Adina Hanna, Reem |
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description | The unprecedented climate of the COVID-19 pandemic has some restrictions on oral care operational services, which heavily impacted the delivery of aerosol generating procedures (AGPs). This led the health authorities to set up guidelines and policies that should be followed to minimize the virus spread and ensure safe and effective dental care delivery. This systemic review aimed to evaluate the current guidelines and strategies in providing safe dental services and ensuring efficacy of the current universal personal preventive and protective measures, as well the impact that this outbreak might have on practicing the dental profession in full scope. The review focus questions were as follows: are the current guidelines and measures in literature mitigated enough to ensure safe and effective oral care delivery to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic? Is it possible to highlight the essential and fundamental cross-infection control measures and policies? Twenty articles were chosen out of 180,248 after the inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied in the period between January 1st and August 1st 2020. Our results highlighted effective safety measures that can be implanted in protecting healthcare professionals and patients and ensuring optimal dental care delivery in a safe and healthy environment, taking into consideration the risk assessment and management of AGPs. In conclusion, informative updated standardized policies and protocols are required when more knowledge on the virus behavior keeps evolving. Moreover, there is a need for evidence-based protective measures to be modified on a regular basis to be followed, until a safe vaccine is produced. |
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spelling | pubmed-78697202021-02-09 Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Professionals and Oral Care Operational Services: A Systemic Review Bordea, Ioana Roxana Candrea, Sebastian Sălăgean, Tudor Pop, Ioana Delia Lucaciu, Ondine Ilea, Aranka Manole, Marius Băbțan, Anida-Maria Sirbu, Adina Hanna, Reem Risk Manag Healthc Policy Review The unprecedented climate of the COVID-19 pandemic has some restrictions on oral care operational services, which heavily impacted the delivery of aerosol generating procedures (AGPs). This led the health authorities to set up guidelines and policies that should be followed to minimize the virus spread and ensure safe and effective dental care delivery. This systemic review aimed to evaluate the current guidelines and strategies in providing safe dental services and ensuring efficacy of the current universal personal preventive and protective measures, as well the impact that this outbreak might have on practicing the dental profession in full scope. The review focus questions were as follows: are the current guidelines and measures in literature mitigated enough to ensure safe and effective oral care delivery to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic? Is it possible to highlight the essential and fundamental cross-infection control measures and policies? Twenty articles were chosen out of 180,248 after the inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied in the period between January 1st and August 1st 2020. Our results highlighted effective safety measures that can be implanted in protecting healthcare professionals and patients and ensuring optimal dental care delivery in a safe and healthy environment, taking into consideration the risk assessment and management of AGPs. In conclusion, informative updated standardized policies and protocols are required when more knowledge on the virus behavior keeps evolving. Moreover, there is a need for evidence-based protective measures to be modified on a regular basis to be followed, until a safe vaccine is produced. Dove 2021-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7869720/ /pubmed/33568961 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S284557 Text en © 2021 Bordea et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Review Bordea, Ioana Roxana Candrea, Sebastian Sălăgean, Tudor Pop, Ioana Delia Lucaciu, Ondine Ilea, Aranka Manole, Marius Băbțan, Anida-Maria Sirbu, Adina Hanna, Reem Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Professionals and Oral Care Operational Services: A Systemic Review |
title | Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Professionals and Oral Care Operational Services: A Systemic Review |
title_full | Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Professionals and Oral Care Operational Services: A Systemic Review |
title_fullStr | Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Professionals and Oral Care Operational Services: A Systemic Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Professionals and Oral Care Operational Services: A Systemic Review |
title_short | Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Professionals and Oral Care Operational Services: A Systemic Review |
title_sort | impact of covid-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals and oral care operational services: a systemic review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7869720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33568961 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S284557 |
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