Open AccessAssociation Between Implementation of a Universal Face Mask Policy for Healthcare Workers in a Health Care System and SARS-CoV-2 Positivity Testing Rate in Healthcare Workers
Author(s) -
Dee Dee Wang,
William W. O’Neill,
Marcus Zervos,
John McKin,
David Allard,
George Alangaden,
Lonni Schultz,
Laila Poisson,
Betty S Chu,
Steven N. Kalkanis,
Geehan Suleyman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1536-5948
pISSN - 1076-2752
DOI - 10.1097/jom.0000000000002174
Subject(s) - medicine , odds , odds ratio , health care , covid-19 , incidence (geometry) , intervention (counseling) , emergency medicine , universal precautions , personal protective equipment , healthcare worker , logistic regression , medical emergency , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , nursing , physics , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , optics , economics , economic growth
Examine the effect of a universal facemask policy for healthcare workers (HCW) and incidence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) positivity.