Risk of COVID-19 Transmission from Infected Outpatients to Healthcare Workers in an Outpatient Clinicopen access
- Authors
- Chung, Hyemin; Kim, Eun Ok; Kim, Sung-Han; Jung, Jiwon
- Issue Date
- Dec-2020
- Publisher
- KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES
- Keywords
- SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Outpatient; Healthcare Workers
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE, v.35, no.50
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
- Volume
- 35
- Number
- 50
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/73509
- DOI
- 10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e431
- ISSN
- 1011-8934
1598-6357
- Abstract
- From January to September 2020, we conducted contact-tracing for confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients who visited our outpatient clinic to evaluate the risk of COVID-19 transmission from infected patients to healthcare workers (HCWs). COVID-19 was diagnosed in 8 outpatients. Per the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SAKS-CoV-2) polymerase chain reaction test results, none of the 317 HCWs who came in contact had a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis (0.00%; 95% confidence interval, 0.00%-0.01%). This low rate of transmission from infected outpatients to HCWs suggests that standard precaution such as using surgical mask and hand hygiene protects HCWs from SARS-CoV-2 in a low-risk, outpatient clinic setting.
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