Nurses’ Contacts and Potential for Infectious Disease Transmission

Autor: Rafael T. Mikolajczyk, Manfred Wildner, Richela Fischer, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Helen Bernard
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 15, Iss 9, Pp 1438-1444 (2009)
ISSN: 1080-6059
1080-6040
Popis: These data can help predict staff availability and provide information for pandemic preparedness planning.
Nurses’ contacts with potentially infectious persons probably place them at higher risk than the general population for infectious diseases. During an influenza pandemic, illness among nurses might result in staff shortage. We aimed to show the value of individual data from the healthcare sector for mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission. Using a paper diary approach, we compared nurses’ daily contacts (2-way conversation with >2 words or skin-to-skin contact) with those of matched controls from a representative population survey. Nurses (n = 129) reported a median of 40 contacts (85% work related), and controls (n = 129) reported 12 contacts (33% work related). For nurses, 51% of work-related contacts were with patients (74% involving skin-to-skin contact, and 63% lasted
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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