Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2020
Identifier
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2020.303; PMCID: PMC7360941
Abstract
To understand hospital policies and practices as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) conducted a survey through the SHEA Research Network (SRN). The survey assessed policies and practices around the optimization of personal protection equipment (PPE), testing, healthcare personnel policies, visitors of COVID-19 patients in relation to procedures, and types of patients. Overall, 69 individual healthcare facilities responded in the United States and internationally, for a 73% response rate.
Journal Title
Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
Volume
41
Issue
10
First Page
1127
Last Page
1135
MeSH Keywords
Betacoronavirus; Coronavirus Infections; Cross Infection; Health Personnel; Health Policy; Hospitals; Humans; Infection Control; Pandemics; Personal Protective Equipment; Pneumonia, Viral; Practice Patterns, Physicians'; Surveys and Questionnaires
Keywords
Betacoronavirus; Coronavirus Infections; Cross Infection; Health Personnel; Health Policy; Hospitals; Humans; Infection Control; Pandemics; Personal Protective Equipment; Pneumonia, Viral; Practice Patterns, Physicians'; Surveys and Questionnaires
Recommended Citation
Calderwood, M. S., Deloney, V. M., Anderson, D. J., Cheng, V., Gohil, S., Kwon, J. H., Mody, L., Monsees, E., Vaughn, V. M., Wiemken, T. L., Ziegler, M. J., Lofgren, E. Policies and practices of SHEA Research Network hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America 41, 1127-1135 (2020).
Comments
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.