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Effectiveness of an institutional COVID-19 central sampling team during pandemic at a tertiary care centre
- Source :
- Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Vol 10, Iss 8, Pp 2993-2997 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, 2021.
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Abstract
- Background: An efficient sampling is one of the key methods to identify all those affected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Objectives: To analyze how efficient setting up of a central sampling team would be to prevent any outbreak within the institution by minimizing the movement of suspected COVID-19 patients admitted in the inpatient wards. The secondary objective was to train maximum resident doctors to collect samples of admitted patients. Methodology: A central sampling team comprising of resident doctors from various departments was made who did sampling of the suspected COVID-19 inpatients admitted under various specialties. Results: There were a total of 341 patients [209 males (61.29%), 132 females (38.7%)] and 335 patients underwent sampling. There was a positive correlation between: (1) number of calls from a department vs percentage of positive samples in that department [Pearson correlation coefficient (R) = 0.47; P = 0.026], (2) number of samples taken by resident of a particular department from central sampling team vs number of positive samples taken by resident of that department [R = 0.8739, P = 0.01] and (3) number of visits to a department vs number of residents trained in that department [R = 0.93; P = 0.00001]. Conclusion: Formulation of a central sampling team led to changes like a separate donning and doffing area in each ward and training of many resident doctors posted in different wards. This made each ward self-sufficient in collection of samples. This venture also ensured minimal movement of suspected COVID-19 patients in the hospital and thus least exposure to the hospital staff.
- Subjects :
- 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Sampling (statistics)
COVID-19
medicine.disease
Positive correlation
Tertiary care
humanities
resident doctor
Pandemic
Medicine
Original Article
Medical emergency
business
Central sampling team
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22787135 and 22494863
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....68dd3cb00989c06fe588c5f6ddd66c43