Open AccessExperience from a COVID-19 screening centre of a tertiary care institution: A retrospective hospital.based study
Author(s) -
Swetalina Pradhan,
Dinesh Prasad Sahu,
Debasish Sahoo,
Arvind Kumar Singh,
Binod Kumar Patro,
Srujana Mohanty
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2339_20
Subject(s) - medicine , retrospective cohort study , covid-19 , tertiary care , pandemic , epidemiology , health care , public health , pediatrics , family medicine , disease , nursing , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , economic growth
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a significant public health concern across the whole world, including India. In the absence of any specific treatment or vaccine against COVID-19, the role of efficient testing and reporting has been uncontested so far as the number of cases is rising daily. In order to strengthen the screening activities and to prevent nosocomial infection, facility-based screening centres have been designed and operated at various levels of healthcare, including tertiary care institutions.