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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2010 Nov 18. [Epub ahead of print]
Hospital Capacity during an Influenza Pandemic-Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009.
Meites E, Farias D, Raffo L, Albalak R, Carlino OL, McDonald LC, Widdowson MA.
From the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (E.M., L.C.M.) and the Influenza Division (R.A., M.A.W.), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; and the Hospital Nacional Profesor Alejandro Posadas (D.F., L.R.) and the National Ministry of Health of Argentina (O.C.), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract
At a major referral hospital in the Southern Hemisphere, the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic brought increased critical care demand and more unscheduled nursing absences. Because of careful preparedness planning, including rapid expansion and redistribution of the numbers of available beds and staff, hospital surge capacity was not exceeded.
PMID: 21087127 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Hospital Capacity during an Influenza Pandemic-Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009.
Meites E, Farias D, Raffo L, Albalak R, Carlino OL, McDonald LC, Widdowson MA.
From the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (E.M., L.C.M.) and the Influenza Division (R.A., M.A.W.), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; and the Hospital Nacional Profesor Alejandro Posadas (D.F., L.R.) and the National Ministry of Health of Argentina (O.C.), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract
At a major referral hospital in the Southern Hemisphere, the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic brought increased critical care demand and more unscheduled nursing absences. Because of careful preparedness planning, including rapid expansion and redistribution of the numbers of available beds and staff, hospital surge capacity was not exceeded.
PMID: 21087127 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
