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Observational Study
. 2020 Dec 10;9(1):199.
doi: 10.1186/s13756-020-00864-w.

Adherence to personal protective equipment use among healthcare workers caring for confirmed COVID-19 and alleged non-COVID-19 patients

Meike M Neuwirth  1   2 , Frauke Mattner  3   4 , Robin Otchwemah  3   4   5
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Observational Study

Adherence to personal protective equipment use among healthcare workers caring for confirmed COVID-19 and alleged non-COVID-19 patients

Meike M Neuwirth et al. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. .

Abstract

Adherence observations of health care workers (HCW) revealed deficiencies in the use of recommended personal protective equipment (PPE) among HCW caring in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 wards during the first period of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in a university hospital in Germany. The adherence to wearing surgical face or FFP2-masks and disinfecting hands prior to donning and after doffing the PPE was significantly higher in COVID-19 wards However, there was no total adherence of 100% in COVID-19 wards.

Keywords: Adherence; Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); FFP2-mask; Health care worker (HCW); Personal protective equipment (PPE); Surgical face mask (SFM).

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Differences in adherence regarding PPE use in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 wards
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