{"doc_desc":{"title":"Infection prevention and control measures implemented in Sentinella practices in 2019 and 2021","producers":[{"name":"Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9), University of Lausanne, Switzerland","abbreviation":"Unisante","affiliation":"","role":""}],"version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 (02.2022)"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"10.16909-dataset-29","title":"Infection prevention and control measures implemented in Sentinella practices in 2019 and 2021","translated_title":"Mesures de pr\u00e9vention et de contr\u00f4le de l\u2019infection appliqu\u00e9es dans les cabinets Sentinella en 2019 et 2021"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Mueller, Yolanda","affiliation":"Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9)"}],"oth_id":[{"name":"Lehmann, Iza","affiliation":"Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9)","email":"","role":"Data interpretation, writing of manuscript"},{"name":"Peytremann, Arnaud","affiliation":"Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9)","email":"","role":"Participation to drafting the study questionnaire, data analysis, reviewing manuscript"},{"name":"Price Hirt, Melanie","affiliation":"Write Lines Editing","email":"","role":"English editing"},{"name":"Members","affiliation":"Sentinella program commission","email":"","role":"Reviewing survey questionnaire"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Rytz, Rapha\u00ebl","affiliation":"Federal Office of Public Health \u2013 Sentinella network","role":"Survey distribution to Sentinella practices"}],"copyright":"(c) 2022, Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9), University of Lausanne, Switzerland"},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"C\u00e9line Racine (Repository administrator)","affiliation":"Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9), University of Lausanne, Switzerland","email":"dfri.data@unisante.ch","uri":""},{"name":"Mueller, Yolanda (Principal Investigator)","affiliation":"Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9), University of Lausanne, Switzerland","email":"yolanda.mueller@unisante.ch","uri":""}]},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0","version_date":"2022-01-31"},"study_notes":"Depuis le 1er janvier 2019, la Policlinique m\u00e9dicale universitaire, l\u2019Institut universitaire de m\u00e9decine sociale et pr\u00e9ventive, l\u2019Institut universitaire romand de sant\u00e9 au travail, l\u2019association Promotion Sant\u00e9 Vaud et la Fondation vaudoise pour le d\u00e9pistage du cancer forment Unisant\u00e9, Centre universitaire de m\u00e9decine g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et sant\u00e9 publique \u00e0 Lausanne. www.unisante.ch","study_info":{"keywords":[{"keyword":"","vocab":"","uri":""}],"abstract":"Background\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures in health care settings, including primary care.\nAim\nTo describe how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced adherence to infection prevention and control measures in private practices in the Swiss sentinel network (Sentinella).\nMethods\nAn online cross-sectional survey was sent to the 181 Sentinella practices in 2021 that included questions on the practice\u2019s spatial organisation, staff habits and vaccination coverage, surgery ventilation, mask wearing, hand hygiene and triage and separation of patients with suspected infection. Results were compared with those of a 2019 survey conducted in the same setting.\nFindings\nWe received 127 valid questionnaires (70.2% response rate). At the time of the study, SARS-CoV-2 vaccination was underway among physicians (47.2%). In 2019 and in 2021, physicians reported similar influenza vaccination rates (90.2% vs 90.6%, respectively). However, mask wearing guidelines for staff jumped from non-existent (55.7%) to recommendation for continuous wearing (93.7%); hand hygiene improved, especially upon arrival at the practice (63.9% vs 85.8%; p<0.001) and before examining patients (74.6% vs 88.2%; p<0.010); impossibility of distancing symptomatic patients dropped (27.9% vs 3.9%, p <0.001); and ventilation and cleaning improved (p<0.001).\nConclusion\nThe COVID-19 pandemic led to important changes in adhering to the recommended IPC measures.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2019-03-12","end":"2019-04-15","cycle":""},{"start":"2021-03-01","end":"2021-04-11","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Switzerland","abbreviation":"CHE"}],"geog_coverage":"Switzerland","analysis_unit":"The unit of analysis is the medical practices. The number of participant practices was 122 in 2019 and 127 in 2021.","universe":"General internal medicine and paediatric practices of the swiss sentinel network Sentinella"},"method":{"data_collection":{"time_method":"First data collection started on March 12th 2019 and ended on April 15th 2019. Second data collection started on March 1st 2021 and ended on April 11th 2021.","coll_mode":"Online survey","research_instrument":"questionnaire"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"Racine, C\u00e9line (Repository manager)","affiliation":"Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9), University of Lausanne, Switzerland","email":"dfri.data@unisante.ch","uri":""}],"cit_req":"Mueller Y., Rytz R., Lehmann I., Peytremann A. Infection prevention and control measures implemented in Sentinella practices in 2019 and 2021. Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisant\u00e9), University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Version 1.0 of the licensed dataset (January 2022), provided by the Unisant\u00e9 Research Data Repository. DOI:10.16909\/DATASET\/29","disclaimer":"The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}},"schematype":"survey"}