Hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection: lessons for public health.

Aaron Richterman; Eric A Meyerowitz; Muge Cevik

Commentary

Hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection: lessons for public health.

December 9, 2020

Richterman A, Meyerowitz EA, Cevik M. JAMA. 2020;324(21):2155.

View more articles from the same authors.

Health systems have taken various approaches to reduce hospital transmission of COVID-19. These authors discuss the impact of universal masking policies for healthcare professionals and patients, dedicated break space, minimizing the use of shared patient rooms and regular testing with short turnaround times on hospital-acquired COVID-19.

PubMed citation

Free full text

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Transmission of community- and hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in hospital settings in the UK: a cohort study.

November 10, 2021

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on hospital acquired infection rates in the United States: predictions and early results.

November 25, 2020

Making electronic health records both SAFER and SMARTER.

July 27, 2022

Adverse events and hospital-acquired conditions associated with potential low-value care in Medicare beneficiaries.

August 11, 2021

The psychological experience of obstetric patients and health care workers after implementation of universal SARS-CoV-2 testing.

September 2, 2020

Measuring hospital-acquired complications associated with low-value care.

March 6, 2019

Diagnostic excellence through the lens of patient-centeredness.

December 8, 2021

Cognitive bias and public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

July 22, 2020

Changes in hospital-acquired conditions and mortality associated with the hospital-acquired condition reduction program.

September 29, 2021

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among frontline health care personnel in a multistate hospital network--13 academic medical centers, April-June 2020.

September 23, 2020

Mortality due to hospital-acquired infection after cardiac surgery.

June 1, 2022

Hospital-acquired conditions reduction program, racial and ethnic diversity, and Magnet designation in the United States.

October 12, 2022

Association of state-level opioid-reduction policies with pediatric opioid poisoning.

August 5, 2020

Another medical malpractice crisis?: Try something different.

October 14, 2020

An evolving hospital quality star rating system from CMS: aligning the stars.

May 26, 2021

In situ simulation as a tool to longitudinally identify and track latent safety threats in a structured quality improvement initiative for SARS-CoV-2 airway management: a single-center study.

February 22, 2023

Cognitive testing of older clinicians prior to recredentialing.

February 5, 2020

Association between hospital acquired harm outcomes and membership in a national patient safety collaborative.

August 10, 2022

To err is human, to apologize is hard.

August 4, 2021

Association of current opioid use with serious adverse events among older adult survivors of breast cancer.

October 14, 2020

Root cause analysis for hospital-acquired pressure injury.

August 14, 2019

Notes on healing after a missed diagnosis.

October 19, 2022

Private patient rooms and hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: hospital-level analysis of administrative data from the United States.

August 5, 2020

A learning health system agenda for organizational approaches to enhancing occupational well-being among clinicians.

May 25, 2022

Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically ill children with culture rates, antibiotic use, and patient outcomes: results of the Bright STAR Collaborative.

May 18, 2022

Rapid response teams as a patient safety practice for failure to rescue.

July 7, 2021

Health care-associated infections among critically ill children in the US, 2013-2018.

October 28, 2020

Trends in adverse event rates in hospitalized patients, 2010-2019.

July 27, 2022

Hospital-acquired SARS-Cov-2 infections in patients: inevitable conditions or medical malpractice?

February 10, 2021

Association of dose tapering with overdose or mental health crisis among patients prescribed long-term opioids.

August 25, 2021

Association between parent comfort with English and adverse events among hospitalized children.

November 11, 2020

Surgical site infection prevention: a review.

February 1, 2023

Assessment of attitudes toward deprescribing in older Medicare beneficiaries in the United States.

December 19, 2018

Association of hospital public quality reporting with electronic health record medication safety performance.

October 6, 2021

Restructuring of a general surgery residency program in an epicenter of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: lessons from New York City.

July 29, 2020

Learning during crisis: the impact of COVID-19 on hospital-acquired pressure injury incidence.

June 2, 2021

Dashboard design to identify and balance competing risk of multiple hospital-acquired conditions.

July 13, 2022

Clinical deterioration and hospital‐acquired complications in adult patients with isolation precautions for infection control: a systematic review.

October 14, 2020

Policies to promote shared responsibility for safer electronic health records.

September 29, 2021

Poetry and Medicine. Mistakes.

September 25, 2019

Hospital-acquired functional decline and clinical outcomes in older cardiac surgical patients: a multicenter prospective cohort study.

March 2, 2022

Assessment of overuse of medical tests and treatments at US hospitals using Medicare claims.

May 19, 2021

Improving clinician well-being and patient safety through human-centered design.

March 8, 2023

Clinical impact and economic burden of hospital-acquired conditions following common surgical procedures.

February 13, 2019

The relationship between high-reliability practice and hospital-acquired conditions among the Solutions for Patient Safety Collaborative.

October 20, 2021

Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction.

April 3, 2005

US emergency department visits attributed to medication harms, 2017-2019.

October 20, 2021

Association of electronic health record use above meaningful use thresholds with hospital quality and safety outcomes.

October 21, 2020

Association of patient and family reports of hospital safety climate with language proficiency in the US.

June 29, 2022

Misdiagnosis in the emergency department: time for a system solution.

February 8, 2023

Poetry and Medicine. Mistakes.

September 25, 2019

Effect of a multifaceted clinical pharmacist intervention on medication safety after hospitalization in persons prescribed high-risk medications: a randomized clinical trial.

March 17, 2021

Association between implementing comprehensive learning collaborative strategies in a statewide collaborative and changes in hospital safety culture.

September 2, 2020

Race as a social construct in psychiatry research and practice.

December 22, 2021

Diagnostic stewardship to prevent diagnostic error.

March 15, 2023

Effect of medication reconciliation at hospital admission on 30-day returns to hospital: a randomized clinical trial.

October 6, 2021

Association between surgeon technical skills and patient outcomes.

September 9, 2020

The second victim phenomenon in health care: a literature review.

November 25, 2020

Development and validation of a deep learning model for detection of allergic reactions using safety event reports across hospitals.

December 9, 2020

COVID-19: patient safety and quality improvement skills to deploy during the surge.

June 24, 2020

Electronic health record legal settlements in the US since the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act.

December 21, 2022

Association of surgeon-patient sex concordance with postoperative outcomes,

December 22, 2021

Incidence of nosocomial COVID-19 in patients hospitalized at a large US academic medical center.

October 21, 2020

Association of display of patient photographs in the electronic health record with wrong-patient order entry errors.

December 2, 2020

Addressing the opioid epidemic in the United States: lessons from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

April 5, 2017

Hospital inpatient falls across clinical departments.

September 1, 2021

Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in England, 2013-20: an observational study of NHS privatisation.

July 20, 2022

Classification of opioid dependence, abuse, or overdose in opioid-naive patients as a "Never Event".

August 5, 2020

Older Adults and COVID-19: Implications for Aging Policy and Practice.

July 15, 2020

Assessment of perioperative outcomes among surgeons who operated the night before.

June 8, 2022

Parent-reported errors and adverse events in hospitalized children.

March 16, 2016

Deferral of care for serious non-COVID-19 conditions: a hidden harm of COVID-19.

November 18, 2020

Factors associated with mental health outcomes among health care workers exposed to coronavirus disease 2019.

April 15, 2020

Guidelines for US hospitals and clinicians on assessment of electronic health record safety using SAFER Guides.

February 16, 2022

Understanding and confronting our mistakes: the epidemiology of error in radiology and strategies for error reduction.

November 11, 2015

A scoping review of non-professional medication practices and medication safety outcomes during public health emergencies.

January 25, 2023

Reducing inappropriate outpatient medication prescribing in older adults across electronic health record systems.

January 13, 2021

Patient and hospital characteristics associated with delayed diagnosis of appendicitis.

February 1, 2023

Hospital acquired infections in surgical patients: impact of COVID-19-related infection prevention measures.

April 20, 2022

Process failures that increase the risk of infection through respiratory droplets: a study of patient safety events reported by hospitals across Pennsylvania.

October 7, 2020

Longitudinal medication reconciliation at hospital admission, discharge and post-discharge.

August 26, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 response on central line associated bloodstream infections and blood culture contamination rates at a tertiary care center in greater Detroit area.

December 16, 2020

Concordance of hospital ranks and category ratings using the current technical specification of US Hospital Star Ratings and reasonable alternative specifications.

August 31, 2022

Association of opioid consumption profiles after hospitalization with risk of adverse health care events.

June 2, 2021

Assessing frequency and risk of weight entry errors in pediatrics.

February 15, 2017

Assessing patient safety culture in hospital settings.

June 2, 2021

Educational levels of hospital nurses and surgical patient mortality.

April 3, 2005

Nonfatal opioid overdoses at an urban emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 7, 2020

Racial disparities in child abuse medicine.

November 3, 2021

Experiences and perspectives of transgender youths in accessing health care: a systematic review.

August 4, 2021

Electronic health record interoperability-why electronically discontinued medications are still dispensed.

September 22, 2021

Wrong-site surgery.

December 13, 2017

Ariadne Labs.

May 23, 2018

Impact of providing patients access to electronic health records on quality and safety of care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

July 8, 2020

Fatigue and safety in paramedicine.

December 18, 2019

Evaluation of a patient-centered fall-prevention tool kit to reduce falls and injuries: a nonrandomized controlled trial.

December 2, 2020

Nonopioid directives: unintended consequences in the operating room.

June 29, 2022

Quality and safety outcomes of a hospital merger following a full integration at a safety net hospital.

March 16, 2022

Patient mortality during unannounced accreditation surveys at US hospitals.

April 5, 2017

Effectiveness and efficiency of root cause analysis in medicine.

February 27, 2008

Related Resources

Identifying adverse events in patients hospitalized in isolation or quarantine due to COVID-19.

May 10, 2023

Healthcare-associated infections in Veterans Affairs acute-care and long-term healthcare facilities during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

April 5, 2023

COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: CMS Needs to Continue to Strengthen Oversight of Infection Prevention and Control.

October 12, 2022

The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 12, 2022

Recommendations for the safety of hospitalised patients in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review.

October 5, 2022

Pharmacy leadership amid the pandemic: maintaining patient safety during uncertain times.

September 14, 2022

Clinic design for safety during the pandemic: safety or teamwork, can we only pick one?

May 11, 2022

What is needed to sustain improvements in hospital practices post-COVID-19? A qualitative study of interprofessional dissonance in hospital infection prevention and control.

May 4, 2022

COVID-19 Focused Inspection Initiative in Healthcare.

March 23, 2022

Patient Safety Primers

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Safety of Older Adults Residing in Nursing Homes

February 24, 2022

Health care safety during the pandemic and beyond--building a system that ensures resilience.

February 23, 2022

Mapping the resilience performance of community pharmacy to maintain patient safety during the Covid-19 pandemic.

February 16, 2022

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, central-line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): the urgent need to refocus on hardwiring prevention efforts.

February 7, 2022

Using smart IV infusion pumps outside of patient rooms.

February 2, 2022

Nursing strategies to safeguard COVID-19 patients from harm in the intensive care unit.

December 8, 2021

Transmission of community- and hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in hospital settings in the UK: a cohort study.

November 10, 2021

Patient, surgeon, and health care worker safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

November 3, 2021

The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on healthcare-associated infections in 2020: a summary of data reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network.

September 22, 2021

Patient safety and ethical implications of healthcare sick leave policies in the pandemic era.

September 15, 2021

Leadership: an effective human factor during COVID-19.

September 1, 2021

Impact of COVID-19 on inpatient clinical emergencies: a single-center experience.

June 9, 2021

The calm before the storm: utilizing in situ simulation to evaluate for preparedness of an alternative care hospital during COVID-19 pandemic.

June 2, 2021

Universal protection: operationalizing infection prevention guidance in the COVID-19 era.

May 12, 2021

Addressing systemic racism in nursing homes: a time for action.

April 14, 2021

The perception of patient safety in an alternate site of care for elective surgery during the first wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom: a survey of 158 patients.

March 24, 2021

Implementation of simulation training during the COVID-19 pandemic: a New York hospital experience.

February 24, 2021

Flow accuracy of IV smart pumps outside of patient rooms during COVID-19.

February 24, 2021

Telehealth in the COVID-19 era: a balancing act to avoid harm.

February 17, 2021

Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: the need to protect both patients and healthcare workers.

January 27, 2021

In the eye of the storm: the role of the pharmacist in medication safety during the COVID-19 pandemic at an urban teaching hospital.

December 23, 2020

See More About The Topic

Hospitals

Health Care Executives and Administrators

Facility and Group Administrators

Public Health

Infectious Diseases

Hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection: lessons for public health.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Safety of Older Adults Residing in Nursing Homes

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infection: lessons for public health.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Safety of Older Adults Residing in Nursing Homes

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site