A hospital-wide response to multiple outbreaks of COVID-19 in health care workers: lessons learned from the field

Med J Aust. 2021 Feb;214(3):101-104.e1. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50850. Epub 2020 Nov 15.

Kirsty L Buising^{1

2

3}, Deborah Williamson^{2

3

4}, Benjamin C Cowie^{1

3

5}, Jennifer MacLachlan^{3

5}, Elizabeth Orr⁴, Christopher MacIsaac^{2

4}, Eloise Williams⁴, Katherine Bond⁴, Stephen Muhi^{1

2}, James McCarthy^{1

2

3}, Andrea B Maier^{4

6}, Louis Irving⁴, Denise Heinjus⁴, Cate Kelly⁴, Caroline Marshall^{1

2

3}

¹ Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
² University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC.
³ Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, VIC.
⁴ Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
⁵ Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, VIC.
⁶ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Infection control; Infectious diseases; Respiratory tract infections.

Publication types

Adult
Australia / epidemiology
COVID-19 / prevention & control
COVID-19 / transmission*
Cross Infection / epidemiology
Cross Infection / prevention & control
Female
Hospital Departments
Hospitals, University
Humans
Infection Control / methods
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / prevention & control
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / statistics & numerical data*
Male
Occupational Diseases / epidemiology*
Occupational Diseases / prevention & control
Personnel, Hospital*
SARS-CoV-2