ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
COVID-19 Screening for Healthcare Workers in a Tertiary Infectious Diseases Referral Hospital in Manila, the Philippines.
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- An Effective Mechanism for the Early Detection and Containment of Healthcare Worker Infections in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- The East Africa Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Learning Network: An Approach to Improving IPC Competencies and Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025Article
- Pandemic Impact, Support Received, and Policies for Health Worker Retention: An Environmental Scan.Acta medica Philippina · 2024Article
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- Providing End-of-Life Care to COVID-19 Patients: The Lived Experiences of ICU Nurses in the Philippines.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Prevalence and factors associated with COVID-19 among healthcare workers at a university hospital in Thailand.Medicine · 2022Article
- SARS-CoV-2 routes of transmission and recommendations for preventing acquisition: joint British Infection Association (BIA), Healthcare Infection Society (HIS), Infection Prevention Society (IPS) and Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) guidance.The Journal of hospital infection · 2021Article
- Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the first 500 confirmed COVID-19 inpatients in a tertiary infectious disease referral hospital in Manila, Philippines.Tropical medicine and health · 2021Article
- If Not COVID-19 What Is It? Analysis of COVID-19 versus Common Respiratory Viruses among Symptomatic Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Infectious Disease Referral Hospital in Manila, Philippines.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2021Article
- Update Alert 4: Epidemiology of and Risk Factors for Coronavirus Infection in Health Care Workers.Annals of internal medicine · 2020Article
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11 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
COVID-19 is an emerging disease threatening the lives of patients and healthcare workers (HCWs) alike. In this article, we present initial results of COVID-19 screening performed among the hospital staff of an infectious diseases referral hospital in Manila, the Philippines. Of 324 HCWs tested, eight were positive; only one was exposed to COVID-19 patients, whereas seven others belonged to two different departments. Routine screening of hospital staff is invaluable for the safety of the HCWs and the patients in hospitals and should be performed on a regular basis. In monitoring HCWs, we protect one of our most valuable assets against COVID-19.
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