How Should Health Care Organizations Protect Personnel in Environmental Services and Related Fields? Academic Article

abstract

• This commentary on a case discusses oft-overlooked roles of health care organizations' personnel in environmental services and related fields, such as waste management. Such personnel are not protected in the same ways frontline clinicians are, although their risk of exposure to pathogens in the course of their work can be high. This article describes why such personnel should be included in planning personal protective equipment access and in administrative and engineering operations concerning infectious disease emergence, containment, and management.

authors

• Gibbs, Shawn

published proceedings

• AMA J Ethics

altmetric score

• 4.45

author list (cited authors)

• Lowe, A. E., & Gibbs, S. G.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Lowe, Abigail E||Gibbs, Shawn G

publication date

• September 2022

publisher

• American Medical Association (AMA)  Publisher

published in

• AMA journal of ethics  Journal

keywords

• Delivery Of Health Care
• Health Personnel
• Humans
• Organizations
• Personal Protective Equipment

PubMed Central ID

• 36170416

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1001/amajethics.2022.846

start page

• E846

end page

• E852

volume

• 24

issue

• 9

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2022.846