Challenges and issues about organizing a hospital to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak: experience from a French reference centre

N Peiffer-Smadja, JC Lucet, G Bendjelloul… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Elsevier
… On March 16 we added the 60 beds of the rehabilitation unit of Bichat for the management
of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. On March 24 we had to use the internal medicine …

Hospital surge capacity in a tertiary emergency referral centre during the COVID19 outbreak in Italy

L Carenzo, E Costantini, M Greco, FL Barra… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
hospital to admit a large number of COVID-19 critically ill patients. Our aim was to increase
hospital … The COVID-19 team on shift was not allowed to leave the unit to assess or consult …

[HTML][HTML] Fast reshaping of intensive care unit facilities in a large metropolitan hospital in Milan, Italy: facing the COVID-19 pandemic emergency

A Zangrillo, L Beretta, P Silvani, S Colombo… - Critical care and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… At first, the general ICU was converted into a COVID-19 unit, with its capacity increased
to … a COVID-19 unit, increasing the total number of COVID-19 ICU beds to 37. All non-COVID-19

Analysis of hospital resource availability and COVID19 mortality across the United States

AT Janke, H Mei, C Rothenberg… - Journal of hospital …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… The incident rate ratio in this model implies that, for an entire additional ICU bed for each
COVID-19 case (a one-unit increase in that variable), there is an associated one-fifth decrease …

Organizing a COVID-19 triage unit: a Swiss perspective

G Peros, F Gronki, N Molitor, M Streit… - Emerging microbes & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… Our triage unit has been able to successfully screen and control the spread of COVID-19
within our hospital premises, while at the same time continuing to perform emergency care …

Nursing care during COVID-19 at non-COVID-19 hospital units: A qualitative study

L Jørgensen, B Pedersen, B Lerbæk… - Nordic journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
… the COVID-19 pandemic situation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the non-COVID-19 units
in this study all had to send RNs to the pandemic units. In addition, a great deal of contacts …

Association of intensive care unit patient load and demand with mortality rates in US Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic

DM Bravata, AJ Perkins, LJ Myers, G Arling… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
… We included patients admitted to a VA hospital that had 10 or more patients with COVID-19
in the ICU during the study period. We excluded patients whose SARS-CoV-2 test date was …

Hospital capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic

N Kokudo, H Sugiyama - Global Health & Medicine, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
… Center Hospital has been expanding its capacity for COVID-19 … beds including 8 intensive
care unit (ICU) beds (Figure 2). The … of patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit (ICU). …

Inpatient telemedicine and new models of care during COVID-19: hospital design strategies to enhance patient and staff safety

NP Pilosof, M Barrett, E Oborn, G Barkai… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
… , senior and intern physicians and nurses working in the COVID-19 units, and the supporting
teams from the hospital management, IT, and construction divisions. Most of the interviews …

Population health strategies to support hospital and intensive care unit resiliency during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Italian experience

G Romani, F Dal Mas, M Massaro… - Population Health …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
… inside the hospital and in close concert with the actions taken at the meso and macro levels
of the Modena Province in successfully addressing the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. …