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Objective Measures of Physical Distancing in the Hospital During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal of Hospital Medicine ( IF 2.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-18 , DOI: 10.12788/jhm.3666
Swetha Tatineni 1 , Nicola M Orlov 2 , Joseph M Riehm 1 , Amarachi Erondu 1 , Christine L Mozer 1 , David J Cook 1 , Maxx Byron 3 , Lisa Mordell 3 , Michael Dimitrov 4 , Vineet M Arora 3
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals published physical-distancing guidance and created dedicated respiratory isolation units (RIUs) for patients with COVID-19. The degree to which such distancing occurred between clinicians and patients is unknown. In this study, heat sensors from an existing hospital hand-hygiene monitoring system objectively tracked room entries as a proxy for physical distancing in both RIUs and general medicine units before and during the pandemic. The RIUs saw a 60.6% reduction in entries per room per day (from 85.7 to 33.8). General medicine units that cared for patients under investigation for COVID-19 and other patients experienced a 14.7% reduction in entries per room per day (from 76.9 to 65.1). While gradual extinction was observed in both units as COVID-19 cases declined, the RIUs had a higher degree of physical distancing. Although the optimal level of physical distancing is unknown, sustaining physical distancing in the hospital may require re-education and real-time monitoring.



中文翻译:

COVID-19 大流行期间医院保持身体距离的客观措施

在 COVID-19 大流行期间,医院发布了保持身体距离的指南,并为 COVID-19 患者创建了专用的呼吸隔离病房 (RIU)。临床医生和患者之间这种距离发生的程度尚不清楚。在这项研究中,现有医院手部卫生监测系统的热传感器客观地跟踪了房间进入情况,作为大流行之前和期间 RIU 和普通医疗单位物理距离的指标。RIU 每天每间客房的入境人数减少了 60.6%(从 85.7 次减少到 33.8 次)。照顾接受 COVID-19 调查的患者和其他患者的普通医学科室每天每间病房的入境人数减少了 14.7%(从 76.9 人减少到 65.1 人)。虽然随着 COVID-19 病例的减少,两个单位都出现了逐渐灭绝的情况,但 RIU 的物理距离程度更高。尽管保持身体距离的最佳水平尚不清楚,但在医院维持身体距离可能需要再教育和实时监控。

更新日期:2021-08-19
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