Harnessing the Power of Hospitalists in Operational Disaster Planning: COVID-19.
J Gen Intern Med
; 35(9): 2732-2737, 2020 09.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-640978
ABSTRACT
Hospitalists are well poised to serve in key leadership roles and in frontline care in particular when facing a pandemic such as the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection. Much of the disaster planning in hospitals around the country addresses overcrowded emergency departments and decompressing these locations; however, in the case of COVID-19, intensive care units, emergency departments, and medical wards ran the risk of being overwhelmed by a large influx of patients needing high-level medical care. In a matter of days, our Division of Hospital Medicine, in partnership with our hospital, health system, and academic institution, was able to modify and deploy existing disaster plans to quickly care for an influx of medically complex patients. We describe a scaled approach to managing hospitalist clinical operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Coronavirus Infections
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Hospitalists
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Disaster Planning
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Capacity Building
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Pandemics
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Betacoronavirus
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Hospitals
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Gen Intern Med
Journal subject:
Internal Medicine
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S11606-020-05952-6
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