Surgical mask use by healthcare personnel to prevent COVID‐19 spread in a long‐term care facility
Abstract Long‐term care facilities are a recognized high‐risk setting for severe outcomes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak. This study describes a COVID‐19 outbreak in a long‐term care facility in Japan. The index case was a nurse who wore a surgical mask and used standard pre...
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| author | Toshikazu Abe Yasuharu Tokuda Hiroki Iriyama Masao Iwagami Akira Komori Takehiro Sugiyama Nanako Tamiya |
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| description | Abstract Long‐term care facilities are a recognized high‐risk setting for severe outcomes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak. This study describes a COVID‐19 outbreak in a long‐term care facility in Japan. The index case was a nurse who wore a surgical mask and used standard precautions. Of the 17 confirmed cases of COVID‐19, 14 (14/93, 15.1%) were residents and three (3/69, 4.3%) were healthcare personnel (HCP); no visitors tested positive 0 (0/22, 0.0%). Mask utilization by HCP was not much effective in preventing COVID‐19 transmission, even when interaction was not considered as being in close contact. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a0136a224e0e48b08de90866448e91a42022-12-21T17:25:32ZengWileyJournal of General and Family Medicine2189-79482021-03-0122210010310.1002/jgf2.394Surgical mask use by healthcare personnel to prevent COVID‐19 spread in a long‐term care facilityToshikazu Abe0Yasuharu Tokuda1Hiroki Iriyama2Masao Iwagami3Akira Komori4Takehiro Sugiyama5Nanako Tamiya6Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Tsukuba Memorial Hospital Tsukuba JapanDepartment of Medicine Muribushi Okinawa Center for Teaching Hospitals Okinawa JapanDepartment of General Medicine Juntendo University Tokyo JapanDepartment of Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine University of Tsukuba Tsukuba JapanDepartment of General Medicine Juntendo University Tokyo JapanDepartment of Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine University of Tsukuba Tsukuba JapanDepartment of Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine University of Tsukuba Tsukuba JapanAbstract Long‐term care facilities are a recognized high‐risk setting for severe outcomes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak. This study describes a COVID‐19 outbreak in a long‐term care facility in Japan. The index case was a nurse who wore a surgical mask and used standard precautions. Of the 17 confirmed cases of COVID‐19, 14 (14/93, 15.1%) were residents and three (3/69, 4.3%) were healthcare personnel (HCP); no visitors tested positive 0 (0/22, 0.0%). Mask utilization by HCP was not much effective in preventing COVID‐19 transmission, even when interaction was not considered as being in close contact.https://doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.394COVID‐19disease outbreakslong‐term caremasks |
| spellingShingle | Toshikazu Abe Yasuharu Tokuda Hiroki Iriyama Masao Iwagami Akira Komori Takehiro Sugiyama Nanako Tamiya Surgical mask use by healthcare personnel to prevent COVID‐19 spread in a long‐term care facility Journal of General and Family Medicine COVID‐19 disease outbreaks long‐term care masks |
| title | Surgical mask use by healthcare personnel to prevent COVID‐19 spread in a long‐term care facility |
| title_full | Surgical mask use by healthcare personnel to prevent COVID‐19 spread in a long‐term care facility |
| title_fullStr | Surgical mask use by healthcare personnel to prevent COVID‐19 spread in a long‐term care facility |
| title_full_unstemmed | Surgical mask use by healthcare personnel to prevent COVID‐19 spread in a long‐term care facility |
| title_short | Surgical mask use by healthcare personnel to prevent COVID‐19 spread in a long‐term care facility |
| title_sort | surgical mask use by healthcare personnel to prevent covid 19 spread in a long term care facility |
| topic | COVID‐19 disease outbreaks long‐term care masks |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.394 |
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