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Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Source :
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020, 20 (10), pp.e261-e267. ⟨10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30458-8⟩, The lancet infectious diseases, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 20(10), e261-e267. Lancet Publishing Group, The Lancet. Infectious Diseases
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2020.
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Abstract
- Health-care workers are crucial to any health-care system. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers are at a substantially increased risk of becoming infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and could come to considerable harm as a result. Depending on the phase of the pandemic, patients with COVID-19 might not be the main source of SARS-CoV-2 infection and health-care workers could be exposed to atypical patients, infected family members, contacts, and colleagues, or live in communities of active transmission. Clear strategies to support and appropriately manage exposed and infected health-care workers are essential to ensure effective staff management and to engender trust in the workplace. These management strategies should focus on risk stratification, suitable clinical monitoring, low-threshold access to diagnostics, and decision making about removal from and return to work. Policy makers need to support health-care facilities in interpreting guidance during a pandemic that will probably be characterised by fluctuating local incidence of SARS-CoV-2 to mitigate the impact of this pandemic on their workforce.
- Subjects :
- Health Personnel
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Pneumonia, Viral
Guidelines as Topic
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Health Services Accessibility
Article
Betacoronavirus
03 medical and health sciences
Return to Work
0302 clinical medicine
Occupational Exposure
Environmental health
Pandemic
Health care
Hajj
Humans
Infection control
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Pandemics
Risk management
Infection Control
Risk Management
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Staff management
COVID-19
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, Coronavirus Infections, Hajj
3. Good health
Infectious Diseases
Harm
Workforce
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
Human medicine
business
Coronavirus Infections
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14733099 and 14744457
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020, 20 (10), pp.e261-e267. ⟨10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30458-8⟩, The lancet infectious diseases, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 20(10), e261-e267. Lancet Publishing Group, The Lancet. Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9b93a73185099417a5dba271ba7773bf