{"id":792,"date":"2020-09-09T13:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=792"},"modified":"2020-09-10T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T20:57:19","slug":"decreasing-high-risk-exposures-for-healthcare-workers-through-universal-masking-and-universal-sars-cov-2-testing-upon-entry-to-a-tertiary-care-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/09\/decreasing-high-risk-exposures-for-healthcare-workers-through-universal-masking-and-universal-sars-cov-2-testing-upon-entry-to-a-tertiary-care-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Decreasing High Risk Exposures for Healthcare-Workers through Universal Masking and Universal SARS-CoV-2 Testing upon Entry to a Tertiary Care Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Implementation of universal masking and universal SARS-CoV-2 testing at admission at an academic referral medical center in the Southeastern US dramatically decreased high risk exposures to SARS-CoV-2 (e.g. exposures without appropriate personal protective equipment) for healthcare workers. Universal masking decreased the per patient day rate of high risk exposures by 68% and universal testing further decreased those exposures by 77%.\n<p><em>Walker et al. (Sept 8, 2020). Decreasing High Risk Exposures for Healthcare-Workers through Universal Masking and Universal SARS-CoV-2 Testing upon Entry to a Tertiary Care Facility. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.uw.edu\/WA0qh8Q1x0q0Oy000A3Zn00\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1358<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Implementation of universal masking and universal SARS-CoV-2 testing at admission at an academic referral medical center in the Southeastern US dramatically decreased high risk exposures to SARS-CoV-2 (e.g. exposures without appropriate personal protective equipment) for healthcare workers. Universal masking decreased the per patient day rate of high risk exposures by 68% and universal testing further&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/09\/decreasing-high-risk-exposures-for-healthcare-workers-through-universal-masking-and-universal-sars-cov-2-testing-upon-entry-to-a-tertiary-care-facility\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[22],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}