Background: China’s New Coronary Pneumonia was raging all over the world,
it was necessary to develop infection control measures in the Taipei metropolitan
model of long-term care system for traditional medicine in order to cope with the
risk exposure of the elderly in Taiwan.
Methods: This study used a two-stage mixed qualitative method to analyze
the epidemic environment context of the metropolitan area. After the data was
selected, a guide structure was established to form the contents one by one.
Result: The analysis of infection control in TCM long-term care institutions
was divided into education training, health education promotion, staff health
management, service target health management, visitor control, case notification
and disposal, notification of severe pneumonia with novel pathogens risk
personnel, and standard protective measures as six major categories; however,
the standard protective measures were subdivided into hand hygiene, respiratory
hygiene and coughing section, personal protective equipment, environmental
cleansing and disinfection, fabric cloth sheet treatment and waste disposal as six
items as well.
Conclusion: Through appropriate guidelines for epidemic prevention in TCM
long-term care institutions, the prevention and treatment of new coronary
pneumonia clusters had excellent traditional cultural protection in senior longterm
care population. Research on health education training, health practitioners,
elderly services, visitor control, case notification, quarantine notices and standard
protective measures, with the characteristics of local Chinese medicine sense and
control of epidemic prevention did make important contributions to COVID-19
prevention.
【Keywords】Guidance, Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens, COVID-19,
Long-term Care Institutions of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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