Effective use of an advanced isolation unit during the COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective cohort study

We described a strategy for preventing virus transmission within hospitals through screening and advanced isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. Patients were screened and admitted to the adult advanced isolation unit from February to April 2020. Our process minimized exposure without delaying p...

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Autores principales: Park, Youngmok, Kwak, Se Hyun, Chung, Kyungsoo, Park, Moo Suk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8249678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34261612
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2021.06.001
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spelling pubmed-82496782021-07-02 Effective use of an advanced isolation unit during the COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective cohort study Park, Youngmok Kwak, Se Hyun Chung, Kyungsoo Park, Moo Suk J Microbiol Immunol Infect Short Communication We described a strategy for preventing virus transmission within hospitals through screening and advanced isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. Patients were screened and admitted to the adult advanced isolation unit from February to April 2020. Our process minimized exposure without delaying proper treatment and prevented virus transmission within the hospital. Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 2021-10 2021-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8249678/ /pubmed/34261612 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2021.06.001 Text en © 2021 Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 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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