A hospital-wide response to multiple outbreaks of COVID-19 in health care workers: lessons learned from the field (15 November 2020)

Summary

When healthcare worker infections at The Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia seemed to be spiralling out of control despite strict protocols being adhered to by expertly trained staff, Professor Kirsty Buising and her colleagues took action.

To inform future responses in the Australian setting, Kirsty and her colleagues present in this paper a description of healthcare worker infections at their institution and the suite of interventions they used to control the outbreak.