Implementation of a respiratory protection program within healthcare facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic- lessons learned

The use of fit tested respirators in the workplace is required to protect health workers against airborne pathogens. The COVID-19 pandemic required rapid upscaling of fit testing which was achieved using the framework of a respiratory protection program. Implementing and sustaining such a program in...

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Autores principales: Jain, Susan, Dempsey, Kathy, Clezy, Kate, Bradd, Patricia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 2022
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9173819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35688230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.05.016
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spelling pubmed-91738192022-06-08 Implementation of a respiratory protection program within healthcare facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic- lessons learned Jain, Susan Dempsey, Kathy Clezy, Kate Bradd, Patricia Am J Infect Control Brief Report The use of fit tested respirators in the workplace is required to protect health workers against airborne pathogens. The COVID-19 pandemic required rapid upscaling of fit testing which was achieved using the framework of a respiratory protection program. Implementing and sustaining such a program in the midst of a pandemic was challenging and required clear direction from a lead agency combined with stakeholder engagement. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 2022-09 2022-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9173819/ /pubmed/35688230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.05.016 Text en Crown Copyright © 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, 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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