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

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.

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