Improving health care workers' protection against infection of Ebola hemorrhagic fever through video surveillance

Highlights • Supervision is able to reduce error rates of taking off personal protective equipment. • Enhance the supervision in the first 2 weeks for the high error rates when the health care workers took off PPE. • We found that additional attention is needed on operation procedures of the first s...

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Published in:American journal of infection control 2016-08, Vol.44 (8), p.922-924
Main Authors: Xi, Huijun, Cao, Jie, PhD, Liu, Jingjing, MD, Li, Zhaoshen, PhD, Kong, Xiangyu, PhD, Wang, Yonghua, MD, Chen, Jing, BS, Ma, Su, MD, Zhang, Lingjuan, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Behavior Observation Techniques - methods
Disease prevention
Ebola
Ebola virus
Ebola virus disease
Female
Health Personnel
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - prevention & control
Humans
individual protection
Infection Control
Infection Control - methods
Infectious Disease
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional - prevention & control
Male
Medical personnel
Middle Aged
Organizational behavior
Personal protective equipment
Protocol
Surveillance
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Summary:Highlights • Supervision is able to reduce error rates of taking off personal protective equipment. • Enhance the supervision in the first 2 weeks for the high error rates when the health care workers took off PPE. • We found that additional attention is needed on operation procedures of the first strip room. • The process of supervision can achieve the effect of constant retraining.
ISSN:0196-6553
1527-3296
DOI:10.1016/j.ajic.2016.02.015