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