Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections at a tertiary care pediatric hospital

The incidence of healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections in a pediatric hospital decreased from 1.6 /1,000 patient-days in 2019 to 0.2 /1,000 patient-days in 2020 (P < .01), and this was maintained in 2021 despite an increase in community circulation of respiratory viruses. Universal m...

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Autores principales: Lefebvre, Marie-Astrid, Rajda, Ewa, Frenette, Charles, Paquet, France, Rubin, Earl, Sleno, Heidi, Stachura, Michal, Tse, Wendy, Salvadori, Marina I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2023
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36736901
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2023.01.017
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author Lefebvre, Marie-Astrid
Rajda, Ewa
Frenette, Charles
Paquet, France
Rubin, Earl
Sleno, Heidi
Stachura, Michal
Tse, Wendy
Salvadori, Marina I.
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Rajda, Ewa
Frenette, Charles
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Rubin, Earl
Sleno, Heidi
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description The incidence of healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections in a pediatric hospital decreased from 1.6 /1,000 patient-days in 2019 to 0.2 /1,000 patient-days in 2020 (P < .01), and this was maintained in 2021 despite an increase in community circulation of respiratory viruses. Universal masking, stricter infection control measures, and pandemic public health interventions likely accounted for this improvement.
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spelling pubmed-98892742023-02-01 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections at a tertiary care pediatric hospital Lefebvre, Marie-Astrid Rajda, Ewa Frenette, Charles Paquet, France Rubin, Earl Sleno, Heidi Stachura, Michal Tse, Wendy Salvadori, Marina I. Am J Infect Control Brief Report The incidence of healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections in a pediatric hospital decreased from 1.6 /1,000 patient-days in 2019 to 0.2 /1,000 patient-days in 2020 (P < .01), and this was maintained in 2021 despite an increase in community circulation of respiratory viruses. Universal masking, stricter infection control measures, and pandemic public health interventions likely accounted for this improvement. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2023-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9889274/ /pubmed/36736901 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2023.01.017 Text en © 2023 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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Lefebvre, Marie-Astrid
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Frenette, Charles
Paquet, France
Rubin, Earl
Sleno, Heidi
Stachura, Michal
Tse, Wendy
Salvadori, Marina I.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections at a tertiary care pediatric hospital
title Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections at a tertiary care pediatric hospital
title_full Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections at a tertiary care pediatric hospital
title_fullStr Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections at a tertiary care pediatric hospital
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title_short Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections at a tertiary care pediatric hospital
title_sort impact of the covid-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated viral respiratory infections at a tertiary care pediatric hospital
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9889274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36736901
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2023.01.017
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