Respiratory surveillance wards as a strategy to reduce nosocomial transmission of COVID-19 through early detection: The experience of a tertiary-care hospital in Singapore.
Liang En Ian WeeJenny Yi Chen HsiehGhee Chee PhuaYuyang TanEdwin Philip ConceicaoLimin WijayaThuan Tong TanBan Hock TanPublished in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2020)
Our institution successfully utilized the strategy of an RSW over a 6-week period to contain a cluster of COVID-19 cases and to prevent patient-HCW transmission. However, this method was resource-intensive in terms of testing and bed capacity.