https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/589255
標題: | Quantitative evaluation of infection control models in the prevention of nosocomial transmission of SARS virus to healthcare workers: Implication to nosocomial viral infection control for healthcare workers | 作者: | Yen M.-Y. Lu Y.-C. Huang P.-H. Chen C.-M. YEE-CHUN CHEN Lin Y.E. |
公開日期: | 2010 | 出版社: | Informa Healthcare | 卷: | 42 | 期: | 44354 | 起(迄)頁: | 510-515 | 來源出版物: | Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases | 摘要: | Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk of acquiring emerging infections while caring for patients, as has been shown in the recent SARS and swine flu epidemics. Using SARS as an example, we determined the effectiveness of infection control measures (ICMs) by logistic regression and structural equation modelling (SEM), a quantitative methodology that can test a hypothetical model and validates causal relationships among ICMs. Logistic regression showed that installing hand wash stations in the emergency room (p 0.012, odds ratio 1.07) was the only ICM significantly associated with the protection of HCWs from acquiring the SARS virus. The structural equation modelling results showed that the most important contributing factor (highest proportion of effectiveness) was installation of a fever screening station outside the emergency department (51%). Other measures included traffic control in the emergency department (19%), availability of an outbreak standard operation protocol (12%), mandatory temperature screening (9%), establishing a hand washing setup at each hospital checkpoint (3%), adding simplified isolation rooms (3%), and a standardized patient transfer protocol (3%). Installation of fever screening stations outside of the hospital and implementing traffic control in the emergency department contributed to 70% of the effectiveness in the prevention of SARS transmission. Our approach can be applied to the evaluation of control measures for other epidemic infectious diseases, including swine flu and avian flu. ? 2010 Informa UK Ltd. |
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ISSN: | 0036-5548 | DOI: | 10.3109/00365540903582400 | SDG/關鍵字: | article; controlled study; emergency ward; fever; hand washing; hospital infection; hospital personnel; human; infection control; infection prevention; major clinical study; mathematical model; patient transport; protection; quantitative analysis; screening test; severe acute respiratory syndrome; standardization; virus transmission; biological model; cross infection; Disease Outbreaks; health care personnel; procedures; SARS coronavirus; severe acute respiratory syndrome; standards; statistical model; statistics and numerical data; time; Cross Infection; Disease Outbreaks; Health Personnel; Humans; Infection Control; Logistic Models; Models, Biological; Models, Statistical; SARS Virus; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; Time Factors |
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