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Suraksha Chakra: A new scoring system to protect the healthcare workers from COVID

Doctors, nurses, house cleaning staff and hospital ward attendants are at increased risk of acquiring coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) if there is a breach in the personal protection equipment. A new simple, easy to implement scoring system has been developed by our Suraksha Chakra team which can...

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Autores principales: Sureka, Binit, Tak, Vibhor, Nag, Vijaya Lakshmi, Rani, Raj, Garg, Mahendra Kumar, Misra, Sanjeev
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8144755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34123883
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1768_20
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Sumario:Doctors, nurses, house cleaning staff and hospital ward attendants are at increased risk of acquiring coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) if there is a breach in the personal protection equipment. A new simple, easy to implement scoring system has been developed by our Suraksha Chakra team which can be used by the policy makers and hospital administrators. The scoring system is not to discourage anyone but constantly reinforce the healthcare workers for safe practices during patient care.