• Am J Infect Control · Aug 2020

    Medical waste management practice during the 2019-2020 novel coronavirus pandemic: Experience in a general hospital.

    • Jie Peng, Xunlian Wu, Rongli Wang, Cui Li, Qing Zhang, and Daiqing Wei.
    • Department of Nosocomial Infection Control, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China.
    • Am J Infect Control. 2020 Aug 1; 48 (8): 918-921.

    AbstractIt is currently a critical period for the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the medical waste disposal could be an important way to control the source of infection, standardization, and strict implementation of the management of COVID-19 related medical waste should be with careful consideration to reduce the risk of epidemic within hospitals. This study illustrates the practice of medical waste disposal responding to the 2019-2020 novel coronavirus pandemic.Copyright © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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