Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Health-care workers are crucial to any health-care system. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers are at a substantially increased risk of becoming infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and could come to considerable harm as a result. Depending on the phase of the pandemic, patients with COVID-19 might not be the main source of SARS-CoV-2 infection and health-care workers could be exposed to atypical patients, infected family members, contacts, and colleagues, or live in communities of active transmission. Clear strategies to support and appropriately manage exposed and infected health-care workers are essential to ensure effective staff management and to engender trust in the workplace. These management strategies should focus on ris

SUBMITTER: Bielicki JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7377794 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature