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#Infection #GlobalHealth #Equity #Leadership • Academic Clinical Lecturer🦟🧫🦠🍄🪱💊💉• call me ‘Sin Hway’• she/her • views my own • retweets ≠ endorsements
Apr 21, 2020 9 tweets 5 min read
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Our @CochraneEPOC review on barriers & facilitators of healthcare worker adherence to infection control guidelines for respiratory infections led by @houghtoncath now live

@MeskellPauline @HannahD_2 @MichaelSmalle @AndrewB007h @decdevane @LindaBiesty
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ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS
*Safety Climate*
-Acknowledging & valuing staff engagement with changes, including physical presence of management in clinical areas modelling appropriate behaviours
-Appropriate staffing and resources for increased workload from PPE use
Mar 22, 2020 6 tweets 7 min read
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I am an infection doctor & scientist. My PhD is on unwanted effects of #antimalarial medicines, like chloroquine, on the heart. In overdose (taken too often or in excessive amounts) or in unapproved combinations, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine & azithromycin kill #COVID19 2/6
Important to use drugs at the right doses at which they have been properly evaluated, and as recommended by international guidelines from expert physicians and pharmacologists like @WHO. Antimalarials are typically dosed by body weight in kg.

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