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Table 5 Training of infected HCWs on IPC and availability of IPC facilities and policies at time of HCW infection (by work location)

From: Epidemiology of Ebola virus disease transmission among health care workers in Sierra Leone, May to December 2014: a retrospective descriptive study

 

Responses

Number of observations

 

Responses

Home setting

Health care centre

Hospital setting

Isolation unit

Other units

Total

Infected HCW trained on IPC (n = 249)

Yes

24 (53 %)

14 (30 %)

80 (68 %)

24 (89 %)

8 (62 %)

150 (60 %)

No

19 (42 %)

27 (57 %)

33 (28 %)

3 (11 %)

3 (23 %)

85 (34 %)

Don’t Know

2 (4 %)

6 (13 %)

4 (3 %)

0 (0 %)

2 (15 %)

14 (6 %)

Total

45

47

117

27

13

249

Availability of IPC policy (n = 250)

Yes

6 (13 %)

27 (56 %)

47 (40 %)

20 (74 %)

5 (38 %)

105 (42 %)

No

35 (78 %)

16 (33 %)

66 (56 %)

5 (19 %)

6 (46 %)

128 (51 %)

Don’t Know

4 (9 %)

5 (10 %)

4 (3 %)

2 (7 %)

2 (15 %)

17 (7 %)

Total

45

48

117

27

13

250

Availability of triage system (n = 251)

Yes

8 (18 %)

8 (17 %)

47 (40 %)

23 (85 %)

3 (23 %)

89 (35 %)

No

35 (78 %)

37 (77 %)

67 (57 %)

4 (15 %)

7 (54 %)

150 (60 %)

Don’t Know

2 (4 %)

3 (6 %)

4 (3 %)

0 (0 %)

3 (23 %)

12 (5 %)

Total

45

48

118

27

13

251

Availability of hand hygiene (n = 252)

Yes

24 (53 %)

27 (56 %)

100 (84 %)

27 (100 %)

7 (54 %)

185 (73 %)

No

17 (38 %)

13 (27 %)

16 (13 %)

0 (0 %)

4 (31 %)

50 (20 %)

Don’t Know

4 (9 %)

8 (17 %)

3 (3 %)

0 (0 %)

2 (15 %)

17 (7 %)

Total

45

48

119

27

13

252

Hand hygiene performed (n = 245)

Yes

18 (42 %)

24 (51 %)

93 (80 %)

25 (96 %)

5 (38 %)

165 (67 %)

No

18 (42 %)

10 (21 %)

13 (11 %)

1 (4 %)

6 (46 %)

48 (20 %)

Don’t Know

7 (16 %)

13 (28 %)

10 (9 %)

0 (0 %)

2 (15 %)

32 (13 %)

Total

43

47

116

26

13

245