Access to personal protective equipment in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: results from a nationwide cohort study (UK-REACH)

Access to personal protective equipment in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: results from a nationwide cohort study (UK-REACH)

Abstract Background Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Effective use of personal protective equipment (PPE) reduces this risk. We sought to determine the prevalence and predictors of self-reported access to appropriate PPE (aPPE) for HCWs in the UK during the COVID-1...

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Main Authors: Christopher A. Martin, Daniel Pan, Joshua Nazareth, Avinash Aujayeb, Luke Bryant, Sue Carr, Laura J. Gray, Bindu Gregary, Amit Gupta, Anna L. Guyatt, Alan Gopal, Thomas Hine, Catherine John, I Chris McManus, Carl Melbourne, Laura B. Nellums, Rubina Reza, Sandra Simpson, Martin D. Tobin, Katherine Woolf, Stephen Zingwe, Kamlesh Khunti, Manish Pareek, On behalf of the UK-REACH Study Collaborative Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-07-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
Healthcare worker
Personal protective equipment
PPE
COVID-19
Ethnicity
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08202-z

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08202-z

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