[Sara Lewis]

My hospital is the same.

All of our patient records are paper based. I encourage all patient files
to stay in the discharge lounge and obs taken in patient rooms, then hand
hygiene prior to touching the file.

However, many hands do touch the file along the patient pathway through
surgery. It is hard to track. I would also welcome any input from the
brains trust!

Sara Lewis
Lady Bjelke-Petersen Community Hospital

On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, 9:39 am De Sousa, Fiona M, wrote:

> Hi All,
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> We are a facility that still uses paper based medical records our concern
> is that these may become widely contaminated and pose a risk to the medical
> records staff when they are reviewed / coded.
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> Whilst we only have minimal patient numbers we are able to manage the
> records outside the patient room, however in the event of a full ward of
> patients we are concerned contamination is likely to occur.
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> Are you able to share with me how your facility is managing paper records
> from COVID positive wards?
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> Kind regards,
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> *Fiona De Sousa CICP-E| *Nurse Manager *|* Infection Prevention & Control
> Unit
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> Launceston General Hospital, Level 2, Launceston TAS 7250
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