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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
; 28(5): 618-21, 2007 May.
Artículo
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17464928
RESUMEN
Hospital preparedness for nosocomial or community-wide outbreaks of communicable disease includes the capability for rapid, self-reliant administration of prophylaxis to its workforce, with the goal of minimal disruption of patient care, here called hospital "self-prophylaxis." We created a new discrete-event simulation model of a hypothetical hospital wing to compare the operational charateristics of standard single-line, "first-come, first-served" dispensing clinics with those of 2 staff management strategies that can dramatically reduce staff waiting time while centralizing dispensing around existing pharmacy-distribution points.