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Jan 11, 2021 · The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the challenges and risks faced by frontline healthcare workers (HCW). This study aimed to describe the clinical outcomes and risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in HCW. Methods. Three databases were surveyed and 328 articles were identified.
- Mandana Gholami, Iman Fawad, Sidra Shadan, Rashed Rowaiee, HedaietAllah Ghanem, Amar Hassan Khamis, ...
- 10.1016/j.ijid.2021.01.013
- 2021
- Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Mar; 104: 335-346.
Challenges with data capture (including non-standardised data collection, heterogeneity in data terminologies, and the enduring structural, cultural, and political barriers to data sharing) have led to data gaps and attenuated the potential research effect of these data.
- Canada Historically Poor at Data Sharing
- Better Data Could Help with Staffing Shortages
- Fragmented Information
Health care's data-sharing problems extend beyond individual patient care. And experts have long argued for better sharing of cross-country health data. Canada has no national database for its more than 100 health authorities and regions to compare human resources and health data. This includes everything from wait-times to staffing shortages. Last...
A national health database would be welcomed by the Canadian Nursing Association, which is pushing for patient ratio standards. It's difficult to even gauge overall nursing shortages without national data, according to B.C.'s nursing union. "There's no real current data out there to tell us exactly how much we've actually lost. Like we've been sayi...
In Canada, health-care funding is the responsibility of the provinces and territories, which oversee health authorities. Each of those authorities gather their own statistics and data in their own way, on various platforms, and not all share the same data in the same form. While emergency wait-time averages, staffing and patient deaths are all tall...
Jun 22, 2020 · The rapid responses to COVID-19 have substantial implications for how healthcare data are used. Understandably, it has been a priority to make data quickly available to support disease surveillance and to inform operational requirements such as hospital capacity planning and resource management.
- Niels Peek, Mark-Alexander Sujan, Philip Scott
- 2020
Jan 4, 2021 · Health-care workers (HCWs) are at the frontline of response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), being at a higher risk of acquiring the disease and, subsequently, exposing patients and others. Searches of 8 bibliographic databases were performed to systematically review the evidence on the preva …
Jul 23, 2020 · In designated COVID-19 wards or hospitals, health-care workers are at high risk of infection. Potential exposure to SARS-CoV-2 is inherent to their work and is prevented only by excellent adherence to all IPC measures, including the use of appropriate PPE.
Feb 5, 2021 · The burden of COVID-19 on health systems and health-care workers was substantial in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where difficult daily triage decisions had to be made in the context of grave shortages of basic equipment and consumables.
