The experience of executing preventive measures to protect a nursing home in Taiwan from a COVID-19 outbreak.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We share our strategies for preventing the COVID-19 outbreak in a nursing home in Taiwan.

Methods

We compared the number of outpatient department visits, the days of prescription from the outpatient department, the number of emergency department visits of the nursing home residents and staff, the number of admissions, and the days of admission of the residents for respiratory tract infection treatment between 2019 and 2020 to examine the effect of our preventive measures in the nursing home. Residents and staff who continuously lived and worked in the nursing home from 2019 to 2020 were included. The differences in outcomes between 2019 and 2020 were examined using paired sample t tests. The multivariate analyses were presented through generalized estimating equation

SUBMITTER: Huang CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7983345 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature