{"id":7339,"date":"2020-06-04T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:29:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:29:35","slug":"the-need-of-health-policy-perspective-to-protect-healthcare-workers-during-covid-19-pandemic-a-grade-rapid-review-on-the-n95-respirators-effectiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/04\/the-need-of-health-policy-perspective-to-protect-healthcare-workers-during-covid-19-pandemic-a-grade-rapid-review-on-the-n95-respirators-effectiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Need\u00a0of\u00a0Health Policy Perspective to Protect Healthcare Workers during\u00a0COVID-19 Pandemic. A GRADE Rapid Review\u00a0on the N95 Respirators Effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A systematic review of 4\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">randomized trials\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">involving 8<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">736 healthcare workers\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">showed that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">surgical masks, wearing N95 respirators was associated with a lower risk of clinical respiratory infections (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.43, 95%CI 0.29-0.64), corresponding to 73 (46-91)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">fewer\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infections per 1000 persons. No direct high<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">quality evidence was found on whether N95 respirators\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">wer<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e better than surgical masks for protection from SARS-CoV-2.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Iannone et al. (June 3, 2020). The Need\u00a0of\u00a0Health Policy Perspective to Protect Healthcare Workers during\u00a0COVID-19 Pandemic. A GRADE Rapid Review\u00a0on the N95 Respirators Effectiveness. PloS\u00a0One.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0234025\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0234025<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review of 4\u00a0randomized trials\u00a0involving 8,736 healthcare workers\u00a0showed that,\u00a0compared to\u00a0surgical masks, wearing N95 respirators was associated with a lower risk of clinical respiratory infections (RR=0.43, 95%CI 0.29-0.64), corresponding to 73 (46-91)\u00a0fewer\u00a0infections per 1000 persons. No direct high&#8211;quality evidence was found on whether N95 respirators\u00a0were better than surgical masks for protection from SARS-CoV-2.\u00a0 Iannone et&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/04\/the-need-of-health-policy-perspective-to-protect-healthcare-workers-during-covid-19-pandemic-a-grade-rapid-review-on-the-n95-respirators-effectiveness\/\">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-7339","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\/7339","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=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7340,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/7340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}