[Investigation report on the SARS infection rate of the second medical team of Peking University First Hospital]

Abstract

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is a newly emerged, highly contagious disease. Health care workers remain the majority of total infections. The second SARS Medical Team of Peking University First Hospital was founded on May 1, 2003, which consist of 95 health care workers. During the working days in SARS wards and following isolation period no SARS cases were diagnosed. This investigation is aimed to give a detailed report on infection control precaution taken by this medical team. It was concluded that reasonable and strict infection control precaution help to reduce infection rate among health care workers, and careful supervision helped to achieve the reduction.