ArticleWorkplace health & safety2016
Prevalence of Respiratory Protective Devices in U.S. Health Care Facilities: Implications for Emergency Preparedness.
Article in Workplace health & safety, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Review of Filtration Performance of Protective Masks.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Reusable respirators as personal protective equipment in clinical practice : User experience in times of a pandemic.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2022Trial
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- Health Care Workers' Comfort Ratings for Elastomeric Half-Mask Respirators Versus N95Workplace health & safety · 2024Article
- Fit evaluation of NIOSH approved N95 filtering facepiece respirators with various skin protectants: A pilot study.Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene · 2023Article
- A manikin-based assessment of loose-fitting powered air-purifying respirator performance at variable flow rates and work rates.Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene · 2023Article
- Examining the Roles of Training, Fit Testing, and Safety Climate on User Confidence in Respiratory Protection: A Case Example with Reusable Respirators in Health Delivery Settings.Sustainability · 2023Article
- Laboratory assessment of bacterial contamination of a sterile environment when using respirators not traditionally used in a sterile field environment.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2022Article
- Characteristics Associated With Health Care Worker Knowledge and Confidence in Elastomeric Half-Mask Respirator Use.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2022Article
- Respirators in Healthcare: Material, Design, Regulatory, Environmental, and Economic Considerations for Clinical Efficacy.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2022Review
- Physiological Impacts of Surgical Mask Coverage of Elastomeric Half-mask Respirator Exhalation Valves in Healthcare Workers.Annals of work exposures and health · 2022Article
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- Do industrial N95 respirators meet the requirements to be used in healthcare? - A possible solution to respirator shortages during the next pandemic.American journal of infection control · 2021Article
- Speech intelligibility test methodology applied to powered air-purifying respirators used in healthcare.Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene · 2021Article
- Development, manufacturing, and preliminary validation of a reusable half-face respirator during the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2021Article
- Elastomeric Half Mask Respirators: An Alternative to Disposable Respirators and a Solution to Shortages during Public Health Emergencies.Journal of the International Society for Respiratory Protection · 2021Article
- Using Public Feedback about the use of Elastomeric Half Mask Respirators to Inform a National Deployment Study within Health Settings.Journal of the International Society for Respiratory Protection · 2021Article
- Characteristics of personal protective equipment training programs in Australia and New Zealand hospitals: A survey.Infection, disease & health · 2020Article
- Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic: Hospital Acceptance Study of Filtering Facepiece Respirator Decontamination Using Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation.Journal of patient safety · 2020Article
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Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2017
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
An online questionnaire was developed to explore respiratory protective device (RPD) prevalence in U.S. health care facilities. The survey was distributed to professional nursing society members in 2014 and again in 2015 receiving 322 and 232 participant responses, respectively. The purpose of this study was to explore if the emergency preparedness climate associated with Ebola virus disease changed the landscape of RPD use and awareness. Comparing response percentages from the two sampling time frames using bivariate analysis, no significant changes were found in types of RPDs used in health care settings. N95 filtering facepiece respirators continue to be the most prevalent RPD used in health care facilities, but powered air-purifying respirators are also popular, with regional use highest in the West and Midwest. Understanding RPD use prevalence could ensure that health care workers receive appropriate device trainings as well as improve supply matching for emergency RPD stockpiling.
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