Infectious Diseases Society of America
30 April, 2020

John B. Lynch, Perica Davitkov, Deverick J. Anderson, Adarsh Bhimraj, Vincent Chi-Chung Cheng, Judith Guzman-Cottrill, Jasmine Dhindsa, Abhijit Duggal, Mamta K. Jain, Grace M. Lee, Stephen Y. Liang, Allison McGeer, Valéry Lavergne, M. Hassan Murad, Reem A. Mustafa, Rebecca L. Morgan, Yngve Falck-Ytter, Shahnaz Sultan

Summarized below are the recommendations for infection prevention among health care personnel (HCP) caring for suspected or known patients with COVID-19. A detailed description of background, methods, evidence summary and rationale that support each recommendation, and research needs can be found online in the full text. In brief, per GRADE methodology, recommendations are labeled as “strong” or “conditional”. The word “recommend” indicates strong recommendations, and “suggest” indicates conditional recommendations. In situations where the guideline panel judged there was insufficient evidence of benefit to support the use of specific personal protective equipment (PPE) with concerns for negatively impacting resources, the expert panel acknowledged the knowledge gap and made no recommendation, highlighting the need for more definitive evidence.

Source: https://www.idsociety.org/practice-guideline/covid-19-guideline-infection-prevention/