Hand surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clinical care best practices.

ABSTRACT: We aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a single institution's hand surgery clinical care guidelines at preventing the transmission of COVID-19. This is an anonymous survey study distributed to all employees within the division of hand surgery at a single quaternary-care academic medical facility. The primary outcome measure was the result of their employee surveillance and/or symptom initiated COVID-19 antibody (prior transmission) or polymerase chain reaction test (active infection) after institution of a COVID-19 exposure and transmission mitigating clinical care protocol. Employees were also asked multiple questions regarding their perceived and actual risk of exposure to COVID-19 while performing their clinical duties. Fifty-five of 69 (79.7%) hand clinic personnel employed during t

SUBMITTER: Bartoletta JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8166454 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature