{"id":9575,"date":"2021-05-04T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T21:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9575"},"modified":"2021-05-06T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:25:25","slug":"increasing-facemask-compliance-among-healthcare-personnel-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/04\/increasing-facemask-compliance-among-healthcare-personnel-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing Facemask Compliance among Healthcare Personnel during the COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a quality improvement study, median weekly face mask compliance among healthcare personnel (HCP) in a tertiary care center in Connecticut was higher (93% vs 82%) after implementation of a multimodal intervention developed from semi-structured interviews of HCP. No difference in face mask compliance was observed between COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 units. The intervention consisted of audit and passive feedback, active discussion, and increased communication from leadership.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Datta et al.\u00a0(May 3, 2021). Increasing Facemask Compliance among Healthcare Personnel during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Infection Control &amp; Hospital Epidemiology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.205\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.205<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a quality improvement study, median weekly face mask compliance among healthcare personnel (HCP) in a tertiary care center in Connecticut was higher (93% vs 82%) after implementation of a multimodal intervention developed from semi-structured interviews of HCP. No difference in face mask compliance was observed between COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 units. The intervention consisted of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/04\/increasing-facemask-compliance-among-healthcare-personnel-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">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":[55,207,37],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-9575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-workers","tag-masking","tag-non-pharm-interventions","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575","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=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9576,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}