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1. Multidimensional dynamic healthcare personnel (HCP)-centric model from a low-income and middle-income country to support and protect COVID-19 warriors: a large prospective cohort study

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Mini P Singh, Vipin Koushal, Vikas Suri, Rakesh Kochhar, Madhumita Premkumar, Arnab Ghosh, Narayana Yaddanapudi, Ritin Mohindra, Ashish Bhalla, Anurag Sachan, Tulika Gupta, Sugandhi Sharma, P V M Lakshmi, Shweta Talati, Babita Ghai, Rajesh Chhabra, Bhavneet Bharti, Pankaj Arora, Sunita Malhotra, Rashmi Ranjan Guru, Navin Pandey, Ranjitpal Singh Bhogal, Arun K Aggarwal, Kapil Goel, Pranay Mahajan, Rakesh Sehgal, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Goverdhan Dutt Puri, and Jagat Ram

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Objectives Healthcare personnel (HCP) are at an increased risk of acquiring COVID-19 infection especially in resource-restricted healthcare settings, and return to homes unfit for self-isolation, making them apprehensive about COVID-19 duty and transmission risk to their families. We aimed at implementing a novel multidimensional HCP-centric evidence-based, dynamic policy with the objectives to reduce risk of HCP infection, ensure welfare and safety of the HCP and to improve willingness to accept and return to duty.Setting Our tertiary care university hospital, with 12 600 HCP, was divided into high-risk, medium-risk and low-risk zones. In the high-risk and medium-risk zones, we organised training, logistic support, postduty HCP welfare and collected feedback, and sent them home after they tested negative for COVID-19. We supervised use of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) and kept communication paperless.Participants We recruited willing low-risk HCP, aged

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2021
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2. Multidimensional dynamic healthcare personnel (HCP)-centric model from a low-income and middle-income country to support and protect COVID-19 warriors: a large prospective cohort study

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Ashok Kumar, Ritesh Agarwal, Goverdhan Dutt Puri, JS Thakur, Pranay Mahajan, Navin Pandey, Rashmi Ranjan Guru, Usha Dutta, Inderpaul Singh Sehgal, Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Rajesh Chhabra, Arnab Ghosh, P V M Lakshmi, Manisha Biswal, Sanjay Jain, Muralidharan Jayashree, Babita Ghai, Jagat Ram, Shweta Talati, Ranjitpal Singh Bhogal, Ritin Mohindra, Vikas Suri, Arun Kumar Aggarwal, Jayanta Samanta, Gurmeet Singh, Vipin Koushal, Madhumita Premkumar, Sunita Malhotra, Tulika Gupta, Anurag Sachan, Pankaj Malhotra, Swapnajeet Sahoo, Mini P Singh, Kapil Goel, Rakesh Kochhar, Pankaj Arora, Rakesh Sehgal, Bhavneet Bharti, Ashish Bhalla, Sandeep Grover, Narayana Yaddanapudi, and S. K. Sharma

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional, media_common.quotation_subject, Developing country, Risk Assessment, organisation of health services, health & safety, Hospitals, University, Tertiary Care Centers, clinical governance, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, human resource management, Health care, medicine, Medical Staff, Hospital, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Prospective Studies, Personal protective equipment, Developing Countries, Personal Protective Equipment, Health policy, media_common, international health services, business.industry, Health Policy, COVID-19, General Medicine, Organizational Policy, Occupational Diseases, Family medicine, Models, Organizational, Workforce, Medicine, Female, Willingness to accept, Risk assessment, business, Welfare, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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ObjectivesHealthcare personnel (HCP) are at an increased risk of acquiring COVID-19 infection especially in resource-restricted healthcare settings, and return to homes unfit for self-isolation, making them apprehensive about COVID-19 duty and transmission risk to their families. We aimed at implementing a novel multidimensional HCP-centric evidence-based, dynamic policy with the objectives to reduce risk of HCP infection, ensure welfare and safety of the HCP and to improve willingness to accept and return to duty.SettingOur tertiary care university hospital, with 12 600 HCP, was divided into high-risk, medium-risk and low-risk zones. In the high-risk and medium-risk zones, we organised training, logistic support, postduty HCP welfare and collected feedback, and sent them home after they tested negative for COVID-19. We supervised use of appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) and kept communication paperless.ParticipantsWe recruited willing low-risk HCP, aged ResultsBetween 31 March and 20 July 2020, we clinically screened 5553 outpatients, of whom 3012 (54.2%) were COVID-19 suspects managed in the medium-risk zone. Among them, 346 (11.4%) tested COVID-19 positive (57.2% male) and were managed in the high-risk zone with 19 (5.4%) deaths. One (0.08%) of the 1224 HCP in high-risk zone, 6 (0.62%) of 960 HCP in medium-risk zone and 23 (0.18%) of the 12 600 HCP in the low-risk zone tested positive at the end of shift. All the 30 COVID-19-positive HCP have since recovered. This HCP-centric policy resulted in low transmission rates (ConclusionA multidimensional HCP-centric policy was effective in ensuring safety, satisfaction and welfare of HCP in a resource-poor setting and resulted in a willing workforce to fight the pandemic.

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2021

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