The construction of fever sentinel clinic in Shanghai community health service institutions / 中华全科医师杂志

ABSTRACT

During the COVID-19 outbreak,the fever sentinel clinics were set up in Shanghai community health service institutions, based on the experience of Public Health Preparedness Clinic (PHPC) in Singapore. It is a successful case of rapidly transforming existing medical resources into the emergent use for epidemic prevention and control. This article summarizes the necessity and feasibility of setting up a fever sentinel clinic; the functional orientation, hardware and software configuration and operation mechanism of the fever sentinel clinic in different periods according to the operation results. Meantime, the article also proposes suggestions for future improvement of establishing fever sentinel clinic in different regions in China.