September 9, 2020

Assessing COVID-19 Transmission to Healthcare Personnel: The Global ACT-HCP Case-Control Study

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

Keywords (Tags): health care setting

• Healthcare personnel who had non-aerosol-generating contact with COVID-19 patients were more likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 (aOR 1.4, 95%CI 1.0-1.9). The proper use of appropriate PPE was associated with lower risk of infection. These findings were based on an online survey of 1,130 healthcare personnel (244 cases with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, 22%) from 67 countries.

Lentz et al. (Sept 9, 2020). Assessing COVID-19 Transmission to Healthcare Personnel: The Global ACT-HCP Case-Control Study. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.455