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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| author | 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 |
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| description | 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 11-week pandemic (H1N1) 2009 period during fall 2009, inpatient occupancy reached 95%, which was lower than the 101% occupancy during the 2008–09 seasonal influenza period. Fewer than 1 additional admission per 10 inpatient beds would have caused hospitals to reach 100% occupancy. Using parameters based on historical precedent, we built 5 models projecting inpatient occupancy, varying the ED visit numbers and admission rate for influenza-related ED visits. The 5 scenarios projected median occupancy as high as 132% of capacity. The pandemic did not exhaust inpatient bed capacity, but a more virulent pandemic has the potential to push children’s hospitals past their maximum inpatient capacity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ce9db4c59e104c2e8a982d2c073fab7e2022-12-22T03:43:24ZengCenters for Disease Control and PreventionEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-60592011-09-011791685168110.3201/eid1709.101950Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United StatesMarion R. SillsMatthew HallEvan S. FieldstonPaul D. HainHarold K. SimonThomas V. BroganDaniel B. FagbuyiMichael B. MundorffSamir S. ShahQuantifying 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 11-week pandemic (H1N1) 2009 period during fall 2009, inpatient occupancy reached 95%, which was lower than the 101% occupancy during the 2008–09 seasonal influenza period. Fewer than 1 additional admission per 10 inpatient beds would have caused hospitals to reach 100% occupancy. Using parameters based on historical precedent, we built 5 models projecting inpatient occupancy, varying the ED visit numbers and admission rate for influenza-related ED visits. The 5 scenarios projected median occupancy as high as 132% of capacity. The pandemic did not exhaust inpatient bed capacity, but a more virulent pandemic has the potential to push children’s hospitals past their maximum inpatient capacity.https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/9/10-1950_articlehospital bed capacityinfluenza A virus(H1N1) subtypepandemic (H1N1) 2009childpandemic |
| spellingShingle | 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 Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United States Emerging Infectious Diseases hospital bed capacity influenza A virus (H1N1) subtype pandemic (H1N1) 2009 child pandemic |
| title | Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United States |
| title_full | Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United States |
| title_fullStr | Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United States |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United States |
| title_short | Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United States |
| title_sort | inpatient capacity at children s hospitals during pandemic h1n1 2009 outbreak united states |
| topic | hospital bed capacity influenza A virus (H1N1) subtype pandemic (H1N1) 2009 child pandemic |
| url | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/9/10-1950_article |
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