TY - JOUR
T1 - Practical Solutions for Healthcare Worker Protection During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in the Ambulatory, Emergency, and Inpatient Settings
AU - Kraus, Anthony
AU - Awoniyi, Oluwafunbi
AU - AlMalki, Yousef
AU - Bardeesi, Adham Sameer A.
AU - Edwards, Bridget
AU - AlHajjaj, Fahad
AU - Alossaimi, Bader
AU - Benham, Todd
AU - Bortolin, Michalengelo
AU - Cattamanchi, Srihari
AU - Court, Michael
AU - Groves, John
AU - Hernandez, Anthony
AU - Issa, Fadi
AU - Macgregor-Skinner, Gavin
AU - Manners, Philip
AU - Molloy, Michael
AU - Romney, Douglas
AU - Voskanyan, Amalia
AU - Weiner, Debra
AU - Yogman, Madeline
AU - Hart, Alexander
AU - Ciottone, Gregory
PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - OBJECTIVE: Protecting healthcare workers is an essential component of a successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The resource intensive nature of infectious disease protection, budgetary constraints, and global shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) make this a daunting task. Practical, easily implemented strategies for healthcare workers (HCW) protection are needed. METHODS: We cross-reference the "Systems, Space, Staff, and Stuff" paradigm from disaster management and the "Hierarchy of Controls" approach to infection prevention from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to generate a narrative overview of worker protection strategies relevant to COVID-19. RESULTS: Alternative types of PPE, management of hazards, and reorganizing how people work can optimize HCWs protection. CONCLUSIONS: A comprehensive PPE strategy can utilize the "systems, space, staff, stuff" paradigm of disaster management to identify new or underutilized solutions to HCWs protection.
AB - OBJECTIVE: Protecting healthcare workers is an essential component of a successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The resource intensive nature of infectious disease protection, budgetary constraints, and global shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) make this a daunting task. Practical, easily implemented strategies for healthcare workers (HCW) protection are needed. METHODS: We cross-reference the "Systems, Space, Staff, and Stuff" paradigm from disaster management and the "Hierarchy of Controls" approach to infection prevention from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to generate a narrative overview of worker protection strategies relevant to COVID-19. RESULTS: Alternative types of PPE, management of hazards, and reorganizing how people work can optimize HCWs protection. CONCLUSIONS: A comprehensive PPE strategy can utilize the "systems, space, staff, stuff" paradigm of disaster management to identify new or underutilized solutions to HCWs protection.
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U2 - 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002008
DO - 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002008
M3 - Article
C2 - 32826554
AN - SCOPUS:85095460887
VL - 62
SP - e616-e624
JO - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
JF - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
SN - 1076-2752
IS - 11
ER -