{"doi":"10.1017/dmp.2021.12","title":"Adherence to Personal Protective Equipment Guidelines During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Health Care Personnel in the United States","abstract":"OBJECTIVES: Protecting frontline health care workers with personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Through an online survey, we demonstrated variable adherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) PPE guidelines among health care personnel (HCP). METHODS: CDC guidelines for optimal and acceptable PPE usage in common situations faced by frontline health care workers were referenced to create a short online survey. The survey was distributed to national, statewide, and local professional organizations across the United States and to HCP, using a snowball sampling technique. Responses were collected between June 15 and July 17, 2020. RESULTS: Responses totaling 2245 were received from doctors, nurses, midwives, paramedics, and medical technicians in 44 states. Eight states with n > 20 (Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington) and a total of 436 responses are included in the quantitative analysis. Adherence to CDC guidelines was observed to be highest in the scenario of patient contact when COVID-19 was not suspected (86.47%) and lowest when carrying out aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) (42.47%). CONCLUSIONS: Further research is urgently needed to identify the reasons underlying variability between professions and regions to pinpoint strategies for maximizing adherence and improving the safety of HCPs.","journal":"Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness","year":2021,"id":198140,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":10,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9695,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":772764,"name":"Ayushi Aggarwal","orcid":"0000-0003-0458-5619","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":716694,"name":"Mehran Karvar","orcid":"0000-0002-1588-9899","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":773255,"name":"Chenhao Ma","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":340201,"name":"Valentin Haug","orcid":"0000-0002-2964-979X","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":772765,"name":"Mengfan Wu","orcid":"0000-0003-2646-3372","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":250214,"name":"Dennis P. Orgill","orcid":"0000-0002-8279-7310","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":267363,"name":"Adriana C. Panayi","orcid":"0000-0003-4053-9855","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":772763,"name":"Oliver Darwish","orcid":"0000-0003-4968-2869","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":3,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:50:27.616568Z","pmid":"33413704","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}