COVID-19 personal protective equipment protocol compliance audit

BACKGROUND: Personal protective equipment (PPE) compliance is important to reduce the rate of transmission of virulent pathogens to health care workers. Medical officer compliance with PPE protocol for COVID-19 was audited in a regional hospital in Australia early in the pandemic response. METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Wotherspoon, Shoena, Conroy, Sheree
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. 2021
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Research Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8216868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34226166
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2021.06.002
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description BACKGROUND: Personal protective equipment (PPE) compliance is important to reduce the rate of transmission of virulent pathogens to health care workers. Medical officer compliance with PPE protocol for COVID-19 was audited in a regional hospital in Australia early in the pandemic response. METHODS: Compliance was assessed based on the order and technique of donning and doffing PPE, with medical officers from multiple departments and levels of seniority audited. RESULTS: Average compliance from all participants was 58.61% with donning and 68.84% with doffing. CONCLUSION: Medical Officer compliance with PPE donning and doffing was poor and additional training was required.
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spelling pubmed-82168682021-06-23 COVID-19 personal protective equipment protocol compliance audit Wotherspoon, Shoena Conroy, Sheree Infect Dis Health Research Paper BACKGROUND: Personal protective equipment (PPE) compliance is important to reduce the rate of transmission of virulent pathogens to health care workers. Medical officer compliance with PPE protocol for COVID-19 was audited in a regional hospital in Australia early in the pandemic response. METHODS: Compliance was assessed based on the order and technique of donning and doffing PPE, with medical officers from multiple departments and levels of seniority audited. RESULTS: Average compliance from all participants was 58.61% with donning and 68.84% with doffing. CONCLUSION: Medical Officer compliance with PPE donning and doffing was poor and additional training was required. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. 2021-11 2021-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8216868/ /pubmed/34226166 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2021.06.002 Text en Crown Copyright © 2021 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. All rights reserved. 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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