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American College of Emergency Physicians Field Guide - Home and work safety for healthcare workers to triage, treatment of Covid patients

Chang D, Xu H, Rebaza A, Sharma L, Dela Cruz CS. Protecting health-care workers from subclinical coronavirus infectionLancet Respir Med. 2020;8(3):e13.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30066-7  

Chen J. Pathogenicity and transmissibility of 2019-nCoV—A quick overview and comparison with other emerging viruses. Microbes Infect. 2020;22(2):69-71. Article  

ECRI. Infrared Temperature Screening to Identify Potentially Infected Staff or Visitors Presenting to Healthcare Facilities during Infectious Disease Outbreaks. (March 2020). https://assets.ecri.org/PDF/COVID-19-Resource-Center/COVID-19-Clinical-Care/COVID-ECRI-Temperature-Screening.pdf.

ECRI. Safety of Extended Use and Reuse of N95 Respirators. 2020;(March)https://assets.ecri.org/PDF/COVID-19-Resource-Center/COVID-19-Clinical-Care/COVID-ECRI-N95-Respirators.pdf. 

Ferioli M, Cisternino C, Leo V, Pisani L, Palange P, Nava S. Protecting healthcare workers from SARS-CoV-2 infection: practical indications. Eur Respir  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7134482/

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Gan WH, Lim JW, Koh D. Preventing intra-hospital infection and transmission of COVID-19 in healthcare workers. Saf Health Work. 2020; Journal Pr. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2020.03.001

Huh S. How to train the health personnel for protecting themselves from novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection during their patient or suspected case care. J Educ Eval Health Prof. 2020;17:10.
http://www.jeehp.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3352/jeehp.2020.17.10  

Liew MF, Siow WT, Yau YW, See KC. Safe patient transport for COVID-19. Crit Care. 2020;24(1):94. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7079436/

Ong SWX, Tan YK, Chia PY, et al. Air, Surface Environmental, and Personal Protective Equipment Contamination by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) From a Symptomatic Patient. Jama. 2020:3-5. 
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762692

Schwart J. Protecting Health Care Workers during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak –Lessons from Taiwan’s SARS response. Clin Infect Dis. published online 12 March 2020. https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa255/5804239.

Unique epidemiological and clinical features of the emerging 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID‐19) implicate special control measures J Med Virol. 2020:0-1.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25748