COVID transmission and contact tracing using WHO risk assement tool among frontline healthcare workers : Insights from a South Indian tertiary care centre

摘要

2021 MAY 05 (NewsRx) - By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily - According to news reporting based on a preprint abstract, our journalists obtained the following quote sourced from medrxiv.org: "Background: The high exposure risk to COVID among frontline healthcare workers was a major challenge to healthcare systems across the globe that warranted close monitoring through risk assessment and contact tracing strategies. The objective of our study was to characterize exposure risk factors for transmission and subsequent COVID positivity among the frontline healthcare workers in our institution during the pandemic period. Methods: The retrospective observational study conducted over a period of 6 months from June 2020 to November 2020 at a 1300-bedded South Indian tertiary care centre included frontline healthcare workers who were assessed for their identified encounter with COVID positive individual using a modified WHO COVID risk assessment tool.