Hospital capacity during an influenza pandemic-Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009

Elissa Meites; Daniel Farias; Lucrecia Raffo; Rachel Albalak; Oreste Luis Carlino; L Clifford McDonald; Marc-Alain Widdowson

doi:10.1086/657667

Hospital capacity during an influenza pandemic-Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009

Elissa Meites, Daniel Farias, Lucrecia Raffo, Rachel Albalak, Oreste Luis Carlino, L Clifford McDonald, Marc-Alain Widdowson

Institute of Tropical Medicine

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Abstract

At a major referral hospital in the Southern Hemisphere, the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic brought increased critical care demand and more unscheduled nursing absences. Because of careful preparedness planning, including rapid expansion and redistribution of the numbers of available beds and staff, hospital surge capacity was not exceeded.

Original language	English
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	32
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	87-90
Number of pages	4
ISSN	0899-823X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/657667
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

Argentina/epidemiology
Disease Outbreaks
Hospital Bed Capacity
Humans
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
Influenza, Human/epidemiology
Interviews as Topic
Surge Capacity

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