COVID-19: management and infection control

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused more than 4.5 million deaths worldwide to date. The emergence of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has created immense pressure on health services and complex challenges in public health. Essential features in managi...

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Autores principales: Harte, Jeffrey, Hamzah, Lisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Viral Infections
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8461320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34584489
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mpmed.2021.09.014
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description The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused more than 4.5 million deaths worldwide to date. The emergence of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has created immense pressure on health services and complex challenges in public health. Essential features in managing COVID-19 include best-practice care for the individual but also minimizing exposure to uninfected patients, staff and the wider community. The central tenets in limiting disease transmission involves strict infection and prevention control, categorizing COVID-19 cases as possible, probable or confirmed, alongside contact tracing, isolation, hand hygiene and droplet precautions.
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spelling pubmed-84613202021-09-24 COVID-19: management and infection control Harte, Jeffrey Hamzah, Lisa Medicine (Abingdon) Viral Infections The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused more than 4.5 million deaths worldwide to date. The emergence of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has created immense pressure on health services and complex challenges in public health. Essential features in managing COVID-19 include best-practice care for the individual but also minimizing exposure to uninfected patients, staff and the wider community. The central tenets in limiting disease transmission involves strict infection and prevention control, categorizing COVID-19 cases as possible, probable or confirmed, alongside contact tracing, isolation, hand hygiene and droplet precautions. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-12 2021-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8461320/ /pubmed/34584489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mpmed.2021.09.014 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd. 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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