Yen M.-Y.Schwartz J.King C.-C.Lee C.-M.PO-REN HSUEHSociety of Taiwan Long-term Care Infection Prevention and Control2020-12-182020-12-1820201684-1182https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/528132The COVID-19 outbreak has drawn heightened attention from public health scholars researching ways to limit its spread. Much of the research has been focused on minimizing transmission in hospitals and in the general community. However, a particularly vulnerable community that has received relatively little attention is elders residing in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). In this article we address this relative lack of attention, arguing that enhanced traffic control bundling (eTCB) can and should be adopted and implemented as a means of protecting LTCF residents and staff. Enhanced TCB has been widely applied in hospital settings and has proven effective at limiting droplet and fomite transmissions both within hospitals and between hospitals and the general community. By effectively adapting eTCB to LTCF conditions, particularly by incorporating compartmentalization within zones plus active surveillance, COVID-19 transmission into and throughout LTCFs can be minimized, thereby saving numerous lives among an especially vulnerable population. ? 2020Compartmentalization; COVID-19; Enhanced traffic control bundling; Long-term care facility; Mitigation; Pandemic[SDGs]SDG3case fatality rate; cleaning; coronavirus disease 2019; crowding (area); disease surveillance; disinfection; emergency health service; epidemic; hand disinfection; human; infection control; infection risk; long term care; nursing home; pandemic; practice guideline; quarantine; Review; thorax radiography; vulnerable population; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirus infection; health care facility; pandemic; procedures; social distance; virus pneumonia; Betacoronavirus; Coronavirus Infections; Health Facilities; Humans; Long-Term Care; Pandemics; Pneumonia, Viral; Quarantine; Social Distancereview10.1016/j.jmii.2020.04.003323034802-s2.0-85083115793