Occupational exposure of healthcare workers to COVID-19 and infection prevention control measures in haemodialysis facilities in North West of England

COVID-19 infection rates in haemodialysis (HD) facilities are extremely high and are attributed to the high burden of comorbidities of HD patients coupled with inability to self-isolate needing thrice weekly attendance for HD treatment. Healthcare workers (HCW) in HD facilities are at risk of occupa...

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Autores principales: Gray, Simon, Clough, Toni, Mcgee, Yvonne, Murphy, Tracey, Donne, Rosemary, Poulikakos, Dimitrios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8178531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2021.100150
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author Gray, Simon
Clough, Toni
Mcgee, Yvonne
Murphy, Tracey
Donne, Rosemary
Poulikakos, Dimitrios
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description COVID-19 infection rates in haemodialysis (HD) facilities are extremely high and are attributed to the high burden of comorbidities of HD patients coupled with inability to self-isolate needing thrice weekly attendance for HD treatment. Healthcare workers (HCW) in HD facilities are at risk of occupational exposure to COVID-19. Infection prevention control (IPC) measures were introduced during the pandemic aiming at reducing transmission and occupational exposure risk of COVID-19. Here we describe the results of our baseline and follow up occupational exposure audit in a renal centre in the North West of England following the implementation of a multifaceted IPC bundle.
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spelling pubmed-81785312021-06-05 Occupational exposure of healthcare workers to COVID-19 and infection prevention control measures in haemodialysis facilities in North West of England Gray, Simon Clough, Toni Mcgee, Yvonne Murphy, Tracey Donne, Rosemary Poulikakos, Dimitrios Infect Prev Pract Short Report COVID-19 infection rates in haemodialysis (HD) facilities are extremely high and are attributed to the high burden of comorbidities of HD patients coupled with inability to self-isolate needing thrice weekly attendance for HD treatment. Healthcare workers (HCW) in HD facilities are at risk of occupational exposure to COVID-19. Infection prevention control (IPC) measures were introduced during the pandemic aiming at reducing transmission and occupational exposure risk of COVID-19. Here we describe the results of our baseline and follow up occupational exposure audit in a renal centre in the North West of England following the implementation of a multifaceted IPC bundle. Elsevier 2021-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8178531/ /pubmed/34316586 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2021.100150 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Healthcare Infection Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Occupational exposure of healthcare workers to COVID-19 and infection prevention control measures in haemodialysis facilities in North West of England
title_full Occupational exposure of healthcare workers to COVID-19 and infection prevention control measures in haemodialysis facilities in North West of England
title_fullStr Occupational exposure of healthcare workers to COVID-19 and infection prevention control measures in haemodialysis facilities in North West of England
title_full_unstemmed Occupational exposure of healthcare workers to COVID-19 and infection prevention control measures in haemodialysis facilities in North West of England
title_short Occupational exposure of healthcare workers to COVID-19 and infection prevention control measures in haemodialysis facilities in North West of England
title_sort occupational exposure of healthcare workers to covid-19 and infection prevention control measures in haemodialysis facilities in north west of england
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8178531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2021.100150
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