Covid-19

Guidance for Healthcare Professionals

Guidance for Healthcare Professionals

These pages will guide you to sources of best available information on Coronavirus / COVID-19 for healthcare professionals.

Infection Prevention

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – Infection Control Guidance for Healthcare Professionals about Coronavirus (COVID-19)

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/

The Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR) – Covid-19 Disease: Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines

https://www.pascar.org/

World Health Organization (WHO)

a. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) technical guidance: Infection prevention and control / WASH

https://www.who.int/

b. Infection prevention and control guidance – (COVID-19)

https://www.cdc.gov/

International Guidance

COVID-19: Interim Guidance on Management Pending Empirical Evidence. From an American Thoracic Society-led International Task Force 

https://www.thoracic.org/

Department of Health, England – guidance for healthcare professionals 

www.gov.uk/

NICE UK Rapid Guidelines and Evidence Review on COVID-19 

https://www.nice.org.uk/covid-19

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

www.ecdc.europa.eu/en

European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

www.esicm.org/

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

www.cdc.gov

Interim Clinical Guidance for Management of Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

www.cdc.gov/

Healthcare Professionals: Frequently Asked Questions and Answers – from Center for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/

Update for Healthcare Professionals – including infection control and protective equipment

https://www.cdc.gov/

U.S National Institutes of Health COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

https://covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/

National Guidelines

Human Resource Online.net

FAQs: Malaysia’s HR Ministry on SOPs for daily COVID-19 reporting at workplaces

Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia:

a. Garis Panduan Kesihatan Malaysia

b. Garis Panduan Proses Kemasukan dan Kuarantin Person Under Surveilence (PUS) Yang Tiba Dari Luar Negara – (Bermula 24 July 2020)

c. Annex 25 COVID guide for workplace 14.7.2020 after PKP

Reviews of the Evidence

HIQA COVID-19 Health Technology Assessments

https://www.hiqa.ie/

Cochrane Library systematic reviews and special collections 

Coronavirus (COVID-19): infection control and prevention measures
www.cochranelibrary.com/

Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care
www.cochranelibrary.com/

Personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases due to exposure to contaminated body fluids in healthcare staff
www.cochranelibrary.com/

Statistics and Dashboards

Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia:
a. COVID-19
b. Current Statistics: COVID-19 by States in Malaysia

WHO: https://who.sprinklr.com

WHO Guidance

World Health Organisation www.who.int 

Interim guidance: Global surveillance for human infection with novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
www.who.int/publications-detail/global-surveillance-for-human-infection-with-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)

Interim guidance: Infection prevention and control during health care when novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspected
www.who.int/publications-detail/infection-prevention-and-control-during-health-care-when-novel-coronavirus-(ncov)-infection-is-suspected-20200125

Mental Health Considerations during COVID-19 Outbreak 
www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/mental-health-considerations.pdf

Training Material

COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

Corona Tracker

Esri CONVID 19 Infomation

IPSOS COVID-19: Our Coronavirus Research, Reports and Data

NIH: Open-Access Data and Computational Resources to Address COVID-19

Our World In Data: COVID 19 Statistics & Research

Statista: Malaysia COVID 19 Cases Breakdown

TDWI : Data Management During and After Coronavirus

U.S. NIEHS Worker Training Program (WTP)

WHO COVID 19

WHO : Global research on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Worldometers

Reference

RCSI Library. (2021). Coronavirus – COVID-19 Information Resources. https://libguides.rcsi.ie/covid19/public