Quality improvement tool for rapid identification of risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers.
Adult
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections
/ diagnosis
Early Diagnosis
Female
Guidelines as Topic
Health Personnel
/ statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional
/ prevention & control
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics
Personal Protective Equipment
/ standards
Pneumonia, Viral
/ diagnosis
Quality Improvement
/ standards
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States
COVID-19
Epidemiology
Healthcare workers
Infection control
Nested case–control study
Occupational health
Quality improvement
Questionnaire
SARS-CoV-2
Journal
The Journal of hospital infection
ISSN: 1532-2939
Titre abrégé: J Hosp Infect
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8007166
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2020
Aug 2020
Historique:
received:
23
04
2020
accepted:
08
06
2020
pubmed:
20
6
2020
medline:
22
8
2020
entrez:
20
6
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The rapid growth of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, limited availability of personal protective equipment, and uncertainties regarding transmission modes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 have heightened concerns for the safety of healthcare workers (HCWs). Systematic studies of occupational risks for COVID-19 in the context of community risks are difficult and have only recently started to be reported. Ongoing quality improvement studies in various locales and within many affected healthcare institutions are needed. A template design for small-scale quality improvement surveys is proposed. Such surveys have the potential for rapid implementation and completion, are cost-effective, impose little administrative or workforce burden, can reveal occupational risks while taking community risks into account, and can be repeated easily with short time intervals between repetitions. This article describes a template design and proposes a survey instrument that is easily modifiable to fit the particular needs of various healthcare institutions in the hope of beginning a collaborative effort to refine the design and instrument. These methods, along with data management and analytic techniques, can be widely useful and shared globally. The authors' goal is to facilitate quality improvement surveys aimed at reducing the risk of occupational infection of HCWs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32553893
pii: S0195-6701(20)30297-8
doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.06.012
pmc: PMC7293763
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
710-716Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 The Healthcare Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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