{"id":2974,"date":"2020-12-30T13:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2020-12-31T13:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T21:15:28","slug":"covid%e2%80%9019-infection-prevention-and-control-adherence-in-long%e2%80%90term-care-facilities-atlanta-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/30\/covid%e2%80%9019-infection-prevention-and-control-adherence-in-long%e2%80%90term-care-facilities-atlanta-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID\u201019 Infection Prevention and Control Adherence in Long\u2010term Care Facilities, Atlanta, Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term care facilities (LTCF) with greater implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) had a lower prevalence of COVID-19, according to analysis of 24 facilities in Fulton County, GA. Specifically, significant differences were observed in prevalence of implementation of IPCs belonging to the social distancing category (high prevalence LTCF, 54% vs low prevalence LTCFs, 74%) and to the personal protective equipment category (high prevalence LTCF, 41% vs low prevalence LTCFs, 72%). Overall prevalence of COVID-19 in the facilities analyzed was 39%. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Telford et al. (Dec 28, 2020). COVID\u201019 Infection Prevention and Control Adherence in Long\u2010term Care Facilities, Atlanta, Georgia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jgs.17001\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jgs.17001<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term care facilities (LTCF) with greater implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) had a lower prevalence of COVID-19, according to analysis of 24 facilities in Fulton County, GA. Specifically, significant differences were observed in prevalence of implementation of IPCs belonging to the social distancing category (high prevalence LTCF, 54% vs low prevalence LTCFs, 74%)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/30\/covid%e2%80%9019-infection-prevention-and-control-adherence-in-long%e2%80%90term-care-facilities-atlanta-georgia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}