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Correlation Between N95 Extended Use and Reuse and Fit Failure in an Emergency Department
- Source :
- JAMA
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- American Medical Association (AMA), 2020.
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Abstract
- This cross-sectional study examines prevalence of fit test failure of 2 types of N95 mask (dome-shaped and duckbill) during extended use or reuse among health care workers over 2 days in April 2020 in the UCSF emergency department.
- Subjects :
- Male
Time Factors
Fit test
Cross-sectional study
Health Personnel
Pneumonia, Viral
Reuse
01 natural sciences
Statistics, Nonparametric
Betacoronavirus
03 medical and health sciences
Health personnel
0302 clinical medicine
Health care
Research Letter
Equipment Reuse
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
0101 mathematics
Pandemics
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
010102 general mathematics
Masks
COVID-19
Equipment Design
Emergency department
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Equipment failure
Cross-Sectional Studies
Equipment Failure
Female
San Francisco
Observational study
Medical emergency
Coronavirus Infections
Emergency Service, Hospital
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00987484
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JAMA
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9259826a80496f75be5cb7c943c1a3bf
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.9843