Identifying asymptomatic healthcare workers with COVID-19 in a community hospital: an institution’s experience
The outbreak related to SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 has been classified as a pandemic. Many healthcare institutions enacted policies to limit the spread within their facility. As hospitals begin to return to normal particularly with elective procedures, a common concern is how an organization should reac...
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Greater Baltimore Medical Center
2020-09-01
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| author | Neal Mehta Krishna Vedala Stephanie Swaim Stephanie Welch Amber Calendar Krishna Kakkera Khaled Khasawneh Roy Kamoga |
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| description | The outbreak related to SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 has been classified as a pandemic. Many healthcare institutions enacted policies to limit the spread within their facility. As hospitals begin to return to normal particularly with elective procedures, a common concern is how an organization should react in the event that healthcare workers test positive for COVID-19. When our organization had a cluster of positive inpatient healthcare workers, we elected to test all direct patient care healthcare workers. Through this process we learned two valuable lessons that have redefined our practice: 1) the recognition that aggressive contact tracing provides greater yield than testing everyone and 2) organizations must implement effective social distancing both within each department and how departments interact with each other to limit the scope of contract tracing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e4f4adf174b4aaab2db9bce6c7b8fba2023-01-02T15:42:11ZengGreater Baltimore Medical CenterJournal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives2000-96662020-09-0110539639810.1080/20009666.2020.17969041796904Identifying asymptomatic healthcare workers with COVID-19 in a community hospital: an institution’s experienceNeal Mehta0Krishna Vedala1Stephanie Swaim2Stephanie Welch3Amber Calendar4Krishna Kakkera5Khaled Khasawneh6Roy Kamoga7White River Health SystemWhite River Health SystemWhite River Medical CenterWhite River Medical CenterWhite River Medical CenterWhite River Health SystemWhite River Health SystemWhite River Health SystemThe outbreak related to SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 has been classified as a pandemic. Many healthcare institutions enacted policies to limit the spread within their facility. As hospitals begin to return to normal particularly with elective procedures, a common concern is how an organization should react in the event that healthcare workers test positive for COVID-19. When our organization had a cluster of positive inpatient healthcare workers, we elected to test all direct patient care healthcare workers. Through this process we learned two valuable lessons that have redefined our practice: 1) the recognition that aggressive contact tracing provides greater yield than testing everyone and 2) organizations must implement effective social distancing both within each department and how departments interact with each other to limit the scope of contract tracing.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1796904covid-19 healthcare workers |
| spellingShingle | Neal Mehta Krishna Vedala Stephanie Swaim Stephanie Welch Amber Calendar Krishna Kakkera Khaled Khasawneh Roy Kamoga Identifying asymptomatic healthcare workers with COVID-19 in a community hospital: an institution’s experience Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives covid-19 healthcare workers |
| title | Identifying asymptomatic healthcare workers with COVID-19 in a community hospital: an institution’s experience |
| title_full | Identifying asymptomatic healthcare workers with COVID-19 in a community hospital: an institution’s experience |
| title_fullStr | Identifying asymptomatic healthcare workers with COVID-19 in a community hospital: an institution’s experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identifying asymptomatic healthcare workers with COVID-19 in a community hospital: an institution’s experience |
| title_short | Identifying asymptomatic healthcare workers with COVID-19 in a community hospital: an institution’s experience |
| title_sort | identifying asymptomatic healthcare workers with covid 19 in a community hospital an institution s experience |
| topic | covid-19 healthcare workers |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1796904 |
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