{"id":4847,"date":"2020-03-04T14:36:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T22:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2021-02-23T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T22:37:44","slug":"stepping-up-infection-control-measures-in-ophthalmology-during-the-novel-coronavirus-outbreak-an-experience-from-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/04\/stepping-up-infection-control-measures-in-ophthalmology-during-the-novel-coronavirus-outbreak-an-experience-from-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping up infection control measures in ophthalmology during the novel coronavirus outbreak: an experience from Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This report discusses the infection control measures implemented in an ophthalmology clinic in Hong Kong, based on a detailed risk assessment. A three-level process was adopted to protect the health and safety of both patients and staff.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lai et al. (Mar 3, 2020). Stepping up infection control measures in ophthalmology during the novel coronavirus outbreak: an experience from Hong Kong. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00417-020-04641-8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00417-020-04641-8<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report discusses the infection control measures implemented in an ophthalmology clinic in Hong Kong, based on a detailed risk assessment. A three-level process was adopted to protect the health and safety of both patients and staff.\u00a0 Lai et al. (Mar 3, 2020). Stepping up infection control measures in ophthalmology during the novel coronavirus outbreak:&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/04\/stepping-up-infection-control-measures-in-ophthalmology-during-the-novel-coronavirus-outbreak-an-experience-from-hong-kong\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-4847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4848,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions\/4848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}