Access to personal protective equipment in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: results from a nationwide cohort study (UK-REACH)

• Main Authors: Christopher A. Martin (Author), Daniel Pan (Author), Joshua Nazareth (Author), Avinash Aujayeb (Author), Luke Bryant (Author), Sue Carr (Author), Laura J. Gray (Author), Bindu Gregary (Author), Amit Gupta (Author), Anna L. Guyatt (Author), Alan Gopal (Author), Thomas Hine (Author), Catherine John (Author), I Chris McManus (Author), Carl Melbourne (Author), Laura B. Nellums (Author), Rubina Reza (Author), Sandra Simpson (Author), Martin D. Tobin (Author), Katherine Woolf (Author), Stephen Zingwe (Author), Kamlesh Khunti (Author), Manish Pareek (Author), On behalf of the UK-REACH Study Collaborative Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Effective use of personal protective equipment (PPE) reduces this risk. We sought to determine the prevalence and predictors of self-reported access to appropriate PPE (aPPE) for HCWs in the UK during the COVID-1...