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cord-269408-6qncy0nd	Khonyongwa, Kirstin	Incidence and outcomes of healthcare-associated COVID-19 infections: significance of delayed diagnosis and correlation with staff absence	2020-10-13		.txt	text/plain	4131	233	54	AIMS: This study was performed to evaluate the prevalence and clinical outcomes of Healthcare-associated COVID-19 infections (HA-COVID-19) during the 2020 epidemic and study factors which may promote or correlate with its incidence and transmission in a Teaching Hospital NHS Trust in London, England. Factors studied included the utility of a single combined throat and nose swab (CTNS) for patient placement, delayed RNA positivity (DRP), selfreported COVID-19 sickness absence among hospital staff, total hospital bed occupancy, community incidence of COVID-19 (CIC19) and the change in incidence of other significant hospital-acquired bacterial infections (HAB). When a HA-COVID-19 case was identified, actions included staff refresher training for correct PPE usage, rapid transfer of patients to a COVID-19 positive cohort ward, deep cleaning (washing walls and carpets) followed by increasing the cleaning frequency until no further transmission was seen (defined as no new symptom onset within 2 weeks of last known case and in haematology and geriatrics a CNTS was tested for SARS-CoV-2 RNA twice weekly for all contacts up to 2 weeks from last positive case regardless of symptoms).	./cache/cord-269408-6qncy0nd.txt	./txt/cord-269408-6qncy0nd.txt