Harnessing the Power of Hospitalists in Operational Disaster Planning: COVID-19.
J Gen Intern Med
; 35(9): 2732-2737, 2020 09.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32661930
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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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Pneumonia Viral
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Infecções por Coronavirus
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Médicos Hospitalares
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Planejamento em Desastres
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Fortalecimento Institucional
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Pandemias
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Betacoronavirus
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Hospitais
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Gen Intern Med
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA INTERNA
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos