TY - JOUR
T1 - Practical Solutions for Healthcare Worker Protection During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Ambulatory, Emergency, and Inpatient Settings
AU - Kraus, Anthony
AU - Awoniyi, Oluwafunbi
AU - Almalki, Yousef
AU - Bardeesi, Adham Sameer A.
AU - Edwards, Bridget
AU - Alhajjaj, Fahad
AU - Alossaimi, Bader
AU - Benham, Todd
AU - Bortolin, Michalengelo
AU - Cattamanchi, Srihari
AU - Court, Michael
AU - Groves, John
AU - Hernandez, Anthony
AU - Issa, Fadi
AU - MacGregor-Skinner, Gavin
AU - Manners, Philip
AU - Molloy, Michael
AU - Romney, Douglas
AU - Voskanyan, Amalia
AU - Weiner, Debra
AU - Yogman, Madeline
AU - Hart, Alexander
AU - Ciottone, Gregory
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2020 American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - Objective:Protecting healthcare workers is an essential component of a successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The resource intensive nature of infectious disease protection, budgetary constraints, and global shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) make this a daunting task. Practical, easily implemented strategies for healthcare workers (HCW) protection are needed.Methods:We cross-reference the "Systems, Space, Staff, and Stuff"paradigm from disaster management and the "Hierarchy of Controls"approach to infection prevention from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to generate a narrative overview of worker protection strategies relevant to COVID-19.Results:Alternative types of PPE, management of hazards, and reorganizing how people work can optimize HCWs protection.Conclusions:A comprehensive PPE strategy can utilize the "systems, space, staff, stuff"paradigm of disaster management to identify new or underutilized solutions to HCWs protection.
AB - Objective:Protecting healthcare workers is an essential component of a successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The resource intensive nature of infectious disease protection, budgetary constraints, and global shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) make this a daunting task. Practical, easily implemented strategies for healthcare workers (HCW) protection are needed.Methods:We cross-reference the "Systems, Space, Staff, and Stuff"paradigm from disaster management and the "Hierarchy of Controls"approach to infection prevention from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to generate a narrative overview of worker protection strategies relevant to COVID-19.Results:Alternative types of PPE, management of hazards, and reorganizing how people work can optimize HCWs protection.Conclusions:A comprehensive PPE strategy can utilize the "systems, space, staff, stuff"paradigm of disaster management to identify new or underutilized solutions to HCWs protection.
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U2 - 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002008
DO - 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002008
M3 - Article
C2 - 32826554
AN - SCOPUS:85095460887
SN - 1076-2752
VL - 62
SP - E616-E624
JO - Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
JF - Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
IS - 11
ER -
