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GuidelineJournal of primary care & community health

Guidelines for Frontline Health Care Staff Safety for COVID-19.

Terrance L Baker, Jack V Greiner, Elizabeth Maxwell-Schmidt, P Henri Lamothe, Modesta Vesonder

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Guideline in Journal of primary care & community health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Clinical Outcomes of Pediatric Cancer Patients with COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of hematology-oncology and stem cell research · 2024
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  3. Article
  4. Clinical Management of COVID-19 Patients - An Update.Seminars in nuclear medicine · 2022
    Review
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  7. The use of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary pediatric hospital.Journal of healthcare risk management : the journal of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management · 2021
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  8. Article
  9. Guidelines: Discharge Instructions for Covid-19 Patients.Journal of primary care & community health
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Terrance L BakerUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Jack V GreinerSchepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye & Ear, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1659-1020
Elizabeth Maxwell-SchmidtAnne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, MD, USA.
P Henri LamotheHartford Health Care Medical Group, Weatogue, CT, USA.
Modesta VesonderUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This document establishes safety guidelines for physicians, nurses, and allied health care and facility staff who may be exposed to patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in a health care facility. SARS-CoV-2 infection is highly contagious and places health care workers at risk for infection resulting in coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Physicians, nurses, and allied health care and facility staff in all frontline environments must be provided and utilize necessary personal protective equipment (PPE). It is important that health care staff adopt a universal set of guidelines in which to conduct themselves in order to minimize infection with the SARS-CoV-2 contagion. The establishment of these guidelines is necessary in this viral pandemic since such directives can create a standard of safety that is universally accepted. These guidelines establish a framework to provide consistency among health care facilities and staff from the time the staff member arrives at the health care facility until they return home. These guidelines provide a practical description of the minimum necessary protection for physicians, nurses, and allied health care and facility staff against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Indexed as

Health PersonnelSafetyCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.Coronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansInfectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalPandemicsPersonal Protective EquipmentPneumonia, ViralUnited StatescoronavirusCOVID-19frontline health care staffpandemicpersonal protective equipmentPPErespirator masksafetySARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32659152
PMCPMC7377597

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