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Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19
A survey of hospitals on three continents was performed to assess their infection control preparedness and measures, and their infection rate in hospital health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. All surveyed hospitals used similar PPE but differences in preparedness, PPE shortages, and infe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8685805/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34930466 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-021-01029-z |
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author | Matoori, Simon Kuritzkes, Daniel R. Goh, Yonggeng Quek, Swee Tian Wang, Liang Sun, Ziyan di Marco, Fabiano Borleri, Daniela Buoro, Sabrina Fagiuoli, Stefano Ferrari, Tatiana Rizzi, Marco Raimondi, Federico Cesa, Simonetta Koh, Dow-Mu Froehlich, Johannes M. Janssen, Sonja Lange, Bettina Egle, Alexander Erb, Stefan Mossdorf, Erik Gutzeit, Andreas |
author_facet | Matoori, Simon Kuritzkes, Daniel R. Goh, Yonggeng Quek, Swee Tian Wang, Liang Sun, Ziyan di Marco, Fabiano Borleri, Daniela Buoro, Sabrina Fagiuoli, Stefano Ferrari, Tatiana Rizzi, Marco Raimondi, Federico Cesa, Simonetta Koh, Dow-Mu Froehlich, Johannes M. Janssen, Sonja Lange, Bettina Egle, Alexander Erb, Stefan Mossdorf, Erik Gutzeit, Andreas |
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description | A survey of hospitals on three continents was performed to assess their infection control preparedness and measures, and their infection rate in hospital health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. All surveyed hospitals used similar PPE but differences in preparedness, PPE shortages, and infection rates were reported. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13756-021-01029-z. |
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spelling | pubmed-86858052021-12-20 Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19 Matoori, Simon Kuritzkes, Daniel R. Goh, Yonggeng Quek, Swee Tian Wang, Liang Sun, Ziyan di Marco, Fabiano Borleri, Daniela Buoro, Sabrina Fagiuoli, Stefano Ferrari, Tatiana Rizzi, Marco Raimondi, Federico Cesa, Simonetta Koh, Dow-Mu Froehlich, Johannes M. Janssen, Sonja Lange, Bettina Egle, Alexander Erb, Stefan Mossdorf, Erik Gutzeit, Andreas Antimicrob Resist Infect Control Short Report A survey of hospitals on three continents was performed to assess their infection control preparedness and measures, and their infection rate in hospital health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. All surveyed hospitals used similar PPE but differences in preparedness, PPE shortages, and infection rates were reported. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13756-021-01029-z. BioMed Central 2021-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8685805/ /pubmed/34930466 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-021-01029-z Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Matoori, Simon Kuritzkes, Daniel R. Goh, Yonggeng Quek, Swee Tian Wang, Liang Sun, Ziyan di Marco, Fabiano Borleri, Daniela Buoro, Sabrina Fagiuoli, Stefano Ferrari, Tatiana Rizzi, Marco Raimondi, Federico Cesa, Simonetta Koh, Dow-Mu Froehlich, Johannes M. Janssen, Sonja Lange, Bettina Egle, Alexander Erb, Stefan Mossdorf, Erik Gutzeit, Andreas Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19 |
title | Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19 |
title_full | Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19 |
title_short | Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19 |
title_sort | preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in covid-19 |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8685805/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34930466 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-021-01029-z |
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