TY - JOUR
AU - Read, Jonathan M.
AU - Green, Christopher A.
AU - Harrison, Ewen M.
AU - Docherty, Annemarie B.
AU - Funk, Sebastian
AU - Harrison, Janet
AU - Girvan, Michelle
AU - Hardwick, Hayley E.
AU - Turtle, Lance C.W.
AU - Dunning, Jake
AU - Nguyen-Van-Tam, Jonathan S.
AU - Openshaw, Peter J.M.
AU - Baillie, J. Kenneth
AU - Semple, Malcolm G.
AU - ISARIC4C Investigators
PY - 2021
DA - August
TI - Hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK's first COVID-19 pandemic wave
JO - The Lancet
EP - 1038
VL - 398
IS - 10305
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01786-4
AB - Prevention of hospital-acquired infections is a critical aspect of clinical management of COVID-19 as hospital-acquired infections have been a common feature of previous novel coronavirus outbreaks.The number of COVID-19 patients in UK hospitals reached high levels during the first pandemic wave of 2020, and higher levels still in the subsequent winter wave. We assessed the magnitude of nosocomial COVID-19 in acute and long-term National Health Service (NHS) hospital facilities in the UK during the first pandmic wave.
PB - Elsevier
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/325d74e9-02cc-4113-9e0d-674274461a26
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Healthcare associated infection
KW - Hospital care
ER