Contact tracing, use of surgical masks, hand hygiene and social distancing represent a bundle of effective measures to control SARS-CoV-2 spreading among healthcare workers in a paediatric hospital.
Contact tracing
Hand hygiene
Paediatric hospital
SARS-CoV-2
Social distancing
Surgical masks
Journal
Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene
ISSN: 2421-4248
Titre abrégé: J Prev Med Hyg
Pays: Italy
ID NLM: 9214440
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2021
Sep 2021
Historique:
received:
13
08
2020
accepted:
03
05
2021
entrez:
15
12
2021
pubmed:
16
12
2021
medline:
18
12
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) Protection from virus exposure in children's hospital is a pivotal aspect of SARS-COV-2 pandemic control. Healthcare workers (HCW) could play an important role in viral infection in-hospital spread. Infection control measures were thus implemented to protect fragile patients and healthcare workers.We retrospectively described a HCW infectionscase-series due to SARS-CoV-2 from February 24
Identifiants
pubmed: 34909484
doi: 10.15167/2421-4248/jpmh2021.62.3.1719
pmc: PMC8639109
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
E592-E597Investigateurs
Gattorno Marco
(G)
Anna Maria Urbano
(AM)
Mohamed Maghnie
(M)
Luca A Ramenghi
(LA)
Marco Adriano
(M)
Andrea Moscatelli
(A)
Emanuela Piccotti
(E)
Raffaele Spiazzi
(R)
Silvia Scelsi
(S)
Ubaldo Rosati
(U)
Paolo Petralia
(P)
Informations de copyright
©2021 Pacini Editore SRL, Pisa, Italy.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Conflict of interest statement The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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