Lessons Learned from Contact Tracing COVID-19 cases in Dental Settings in East Scotland.

IF 0.9 4区医学 Q3 DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE

Community dental health Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI:10.1922/CDH_00183McGoldrick06

N Mc Goldrick, E O'Keefe

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Abstract

Introduction: Dental settings were considered high risk settings for COVID-19. A Dental Public Health Team in East Scotland worked to risk assess each situation timeously to break chains of transmission.

Aim: To present learning from routine data collected from contact tracing COVID-19 cases in the dental setting.

Design: Retrospective analysis of a routine data set of COVID-19 cases associated with a dental setting reported via the national contact tracing system for two health board areas in the East of Scotland.

Methods: Descriptive statistics summarise the data collected over a 13-month period (Oct 2020-Dec 2021) during which all included COVID-19 cases were confirmed by PCR. A narrative presents output from contact tracing of all cases and includes themes identified during contact tracing that led to transmission within a dental setting. A case study illustrates impact of transmission.

Results: 752 cases are included. No evidence of staff to patient transmission or vice versa was found in this study. Staff to staff transmission occurred in non-clinical areas contributing to 33% of total staff cases with the remainder assessed to result from community transmission.

Conclusion: Transmission of COVID-19 in a dental setting, in the context of this study, appears to be confined to non-clinical areas with the majority of staff cases resulting from community transmission. Future pandemic plans should include tools to aid with implementation of guidance in non-clinical areas.

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从苏格兰东部牙科机构接触追踪 COVID-19 病例中汲取的经验教训。

导言：牙科环境被认为是COVID-19的高风险环境。苏格兰东部的一个牙科公共卫生小组致力于及时对每种情况进行风险评估，以打破传播链。目的：介绍从牙科环境中接触追踪 COVID-19 病例所收集的常规数据中学习到的知识：设计：对苏格兰东部两个卫生局地区通过国家接触追踪系统报告的与牙科环境相关的 COVID-19 病例的常规数据集进行回顾性分析：描述性统计汇总了 13 个月期间（2020 年 10 月至 2021 年 12 月）收集的数据，在此期间，所有纳入的 COVID-19 病例均通过 PCR 得到确诊。一篇叙述性文章介绍了所有病例的接触追踪结果，包括在接触追踪过程中发现的导致牙科环境中传播的主题。案例研究说明了传播的影响：结果：共包括 752 个病例。本研究未发现员工传染给患者或患者传染给员工的证据。工作人员之间的传播发生在非临床区域，占工作人员病例总数的 33%，其余病例经评估为社区传播：结论：就本研究而言，COVID-19 在牙科环境中的传播似乎仅限于非临床区域，大多数员工病例都是由社区传播引起的。未来的大流行计划应包括在非临床领域协助实施指导的工具。

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Community dental health 医学-牙科与口腔外科

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

11.80%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： The journal is concerned with dental public health and related subjects. Dental public health is the science and the art of preventing oral disease, promoting oral health, and improving the quality of life through the organised efforts of society. The discipline covers a wide range and includes such topics as: -oral epidemiology- oral health services research- preventive dentistry - especially in relation to communities- oral health education and promotion- clinical research - with particular emphasis on the care of special groups- behavioural sciences related to dentistry- decision theory- quality of life- risk analysis- ethics and oral health economics- quality assessment. The journal publishes scientific articles on the relevant fields, review articles, discussion papers, news items, and editorials. It is of interest to dentists working in dental public health and to other professionals concerned with disease prevention, health service planning, and health promotion throughout the world. In the case of epidemiology of oral diseases the Journal prioritises national studies unless local studies have major methodological innovations or information of particular interest.