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cord-316718-7gtgqmcn	Murphy, D. L.	Occupational Exposures and Programmatic Response to COVID-19 Pandemic: An Emergency Medical Services Experience	2020-05-24		.txt	text/plain	3697	203	51	We reviewed dispatch, EMS, and public health surveillance records to evaluate the temporal relationship between exposure and programmatic changes to EMS operations designed to identify high-risk patients, protect the workforce, and conserve PPE. Ideally, EMS strategies would incorporate COVID-19 risk assessment and target use of the limited PPE resource in order to achieve EMS provider safety, extend the supply of PPE, and support high-quality patient care. Of the 700 unique EMS providers caring for patients with confirmed COVID-19, 3 (0.4%) tested positive during the 14 days following an encounter (Table 3 ), yet none of these three had a documented occupational exposure. The series of practice changes involving dispatch advisement, patient COVID-19 risk criteria, and initial EMS scene deployment were associated with a temporal increase in adequate PPE use and conversely a decrease in EMS provider exposures (Figure 2, p<0.01) .	./cache/cord-316718-7gtgqmcn.txt	./txt/cord-316718-7gtgqmcn.txt