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. 2020 Sep 14;7(10):ofaa435.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa435. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Incidence of Health Care-Associated COVID-19 During Universal Testing of Medical and Surgical Admissions in a Large US Health System

Dustin R Long  1 , Vikas O'Reilly-Shah  2 , Alison S Rustagi  3 , Chloe Bryson-Cahn  4 , Keith R Jerome  5   6 , Noel S Weiss  7 , Jacob E Sunshine  2
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Incidence of Health Care-Associated COVID-19 During Universal Testing of Medical and Surgical Admissions in a Large US Health System

Dustin R Long et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Concerns about severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 exposure in health care settings may cause patients to delay care. Among 2992 patients testing negative on admission to an academic, 3-hospital system, 8 tested positive during hospitalization or within 14 days postdischarge. Following adjudication of each instance, health care-associated infection incidence ranged from 0.8 to 5.0 cases per 10 000 patient-days.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; emerging infections; hospital epidemiology; nosocomial infection.

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