Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from universally masked healthcare workers to patients or residents: A prospective cohort study

In a multifacility prospective cohort study, we identified 116 acute care, 26 long-term care, and 67 rehabilitation patients who received direct care from a universally masked healthcare worker while communicable with COVID-19. Among 133(64%) patients with at least 14-day follow-up, 3 (2.3%, 95% CI,...

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Autores principales: Williams, Victoria R., Maze dit Mieusement, Lorraine, Tomiczek, Nicholas, Chan, Adrienne K., Salt, Natasha, Leis, Jerome A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8390095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34455030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.08.024
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author Williams, Victoria R.
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description In a multifacility prospective cohort study, we identified 116 acute care, 26 long-term care, and 67 rehabilitation patients who received direct care from a universally masked healthcare worker while communicable with COVID-19. Among 133(64%) patients with at least 14-day follow-up, 3 (2.3%, 95% CI, 0.77-6.4) became positive for SARS-CoV-2. Universal masking, embedded with other infection control practices, is associated with low risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from healthcare workers to patients and residents.
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spelling pubmed-83900952021-08-27 Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission from universally masked healthcare workers to patients or residents: A prospective cohort study Williams, Victoria R. Maze dit Mieusement, Lorraine Tomiczek, Nicholas Chan, Adrienne K. Salt, Natasha Leis, Jerome A. Am J Infect Control Brief Report In a multifacility prospective cohort study, we identified 116 acute care, 26 long-term care, and 67 rehabilitation patients who received direct care from a universally masked healthcare worker while communicable with COVID-19. Among 133(64%) patients with at least 14-day follow-up, 3 (2.3%, 95% CI, 0.77-6.4) became positive for SARS-CoV-2. Universal masking, embedded with other infection control practices, is associated with low risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from healthcare workers to patients and residents. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-11 2021-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8390095/ /pubmed/34455030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.08.024 Text en © 2021 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 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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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34455030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.08.024
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