Do established infection prevention and control measures prevent spread of SARS-CoV-2 to the hospital environment beyond the patient room?

J Jerry, E O'Regan, L O'Sullivan, M Lynch… - Journal of Hospital …, 2020 - Elsevier
The role of the hospital environment in the transmission of infection is well described. With
an emerging infection whose mode of transmission is under investigation, strict infection …

Containment of COVID-19 cases among healthcare workers: the role of surveillance, early detection, and outbreak management

LE Wee, XYJ Sim, EP Conceicao, MK Aung… - Infection Control & …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Objective: Staff surveillance is crucial during the containment phase of a pandemic to help
reduce potential healthcare-associated transmission and sustain good staff morale. During …

SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care workers: cross-sectional analysis of an otolaryngology unit

A Paderno, M Fior, G Berretti… - … –Head and Neck …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The restart of routine in-and outpatient activity in the COVID-19 postepidemic peak needs to
be carefully planned in light of specific patterns of viral diffusion. We evaluated SARS-CoV-2 …

COVID-19: protecting healthcare workers is a priority

F Chirico, G Nucera, N Magnavita - Infection Control & Hospital …, 2020 - cambridge.org
To the Editor—We very much appreciated the letter by Zhou et al Reference Zhou, Huang,
Xiao, Huang and Fan 1 regarding the protection of Chinese healthcare workers (HCWs) …