Healthcare workers' perspectives on coronavirus testing availability: a cross sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies on the impact of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID) for healthcare workers (HCWs) rarely include the full spectrum of hospital workers, including less visible patient support roles. In the early days of the pandemic, COVID testing was preferentially available to HCWs. The objective of this study was to understand how individual experiences for all HCWs during the pandemic were associated with perceptions of access to, and receipt of COVID testing .

Methods

All hospital employees (n = 6736) in a single academic medical center in Boston, Massachusetts were invited to participate in a cross-sectional survey regarding perceived access to, and receipt of COVID testing during the first wave of the pandemic (March - August 2020). Responses were linked to human re

SUBMITTER: Byhoff E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8294832 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature