Safe hospital preparedness in the era of COVID-19: The Swiss cheese model

Since it first emerged in December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly worldwide. During the pandemic of an emerging infectious disease, it is very important to prevent nosocomial outbreaks and operate hospitals safely to maintain their functions. In this article, we present...

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Autores principales: Noh, Ji Yun, Song, Joon Young, Yoon, Jin Gu, Seong, Hye, Cheong, Hee Jin, Kim, Woo Joo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7326408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32619759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.094
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description Since it first emerged in December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly worldwide. During the pandemic of an emerging infectious disease, it is very important to prevent nosocomial outbreaks and operate hospitals safely to maintain their functions. In this article, we present the strategies for safe hospital operations based on the experiences of the Republic of Korea early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Each hospital should maintain multiple layers of defenses to prevent even small cracks in the hospital’s quarantine system.
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spelling pubmed-73264082020-07-01 Safe hospital preparedness in the era of COVID-19: The Swiss cheese model Noh, Ji Yun Song, Joon Young Yoon, Jin Gu Seong, Hye Cheong, Hee Jin Kim, Woo Joo Int J Infect Dis Perspective Since it first emerged in December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread rapidly worldwide. During the pandemic of an emerging infectious disease, it is very important to prevent nosocomial outbreaks and operate hospitals safely to maintain their functions. In this article, we present the strategies for safe hospital operations based on the experiences of the Republic of Korea early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Each hospital should maintain multiple layers of defenses to prevent even small cracks in the hospital’s quarantine system. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. 2020-09 2020-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7326408/ /pubmed/32619759 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.094 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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