Respiratory Specimen Collection Booth for COVID-19 Test: Efficiency Based Newly Introduced Facility

Yelin Kim; Inae Yu; Ohmee Kweon; Jun Yong Choi; Dongeun Yong; Eun Suk Park

doi:10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e432

Respiratory Specimen Collection Booth for COVID-19 Test: Efficiency Based Newly Introduced Facility

J Korean Med Sci. 2020 Dec 21;35(49):e432. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e432.

Authors

Yelin Kim^#¹, Inae Yu^#¹, Ohmee Kweon¹, Jun Yong Choi², Dongeun Yong³, Eun Suk Park⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infection Control, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea.
² Department of Internal Medicine and AIDS Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Research Institute of Bacterial Resistance, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
⁴ Department of Infection Control, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea. [email protected].

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Hospitals need to find a safe and rapid method for respiratory specimen collection as the number of patients suspicious for coronavirus disease -2019 (COVID-19) rapidly grows. Applied with significant infection control and prevention measures, a respiratory specimen collection booth was newly designed. The new respiratory specimen collection booth not only increased COVID-19 testing cases but also decreased personal protective equipment consumption.

Keywords: COVID-19; Infection Prevention and Control; Respiratory Specimen Collection Booth; SARS-CoV-2.

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 Testing / instrumentation*
COVID-19 Testing / methods*
Disinfection / methods
Equipment Design
Hospitals
Humans
Infection Control / methods*
Personal Protective Equipment
Specimen Handling / instrumentation*
Specimen Handling / methods