Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United States

Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United States

Quantifying how close hospitals came to exhausting capacity during the outbreak of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 can help the health care system plan for more virulent pandemics. This ecologic analysis used emergency department (ED) and inpatient data from 34 US children's hospitals. For the...

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Main Authors: Marion R. Sills, Matthew Hall, Evan S. Fieldston, Paul D. Hain, Harold K. Simon, Thomas V. Brogan, Daniel B. Fagbuyi, Michael B. Mundorff, Samir S. Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011-09-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
hospital bed capacity
influenza A virus
(H1N1) subtype
pandemic (H1N1) 2009
child
pandemic
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/9/10-1950_article

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