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Adaptability and responsiveness: keys to operational measures in a regional hospital radiology department during the current COVID-19 pandemic
The rapid and mostly uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic over the past 4 months has overwhelmed many healthcare systems worldwide. In Singapore, while our public healthcare institutions were considered well prepared due to our prior experience with the SARS outbreak, there w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33178977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjro.20200017 |
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author | Mukherjee, Pratik Lim, Tze Chwan Chawla, Ashish Chou, Hong Peh, Wilfred C G |
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description | The rapid and mostly uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic over the past 4 months has overwhelmed many healthcare systems worldwide. In Singapore, while our public healthcare institutions were considered well prepared due to our prior experience with the SARS outbreak, there was an unexpected surge of infected patients over the recent 2 months to deal with. We describe our radiology department’s experience in modifying operational practices and implementing strict infection control measures aimed at minimizing disease transmission and mitigating the potential impact of possible staff infection. From the perspective of serving a medium-sized regional hospital and limited by physical and manpower constraints, our radiology department had to adapt quickly and modify our initial responses and practices as the disease scenario changed. We have also enumerated some guidelines for planning future radiology departments. |
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spelling | pubmed-75948872020-11-10 Adaptability and responsiveness: keys to operational measures in a regional hospital radiology department during the current COVID-19 pandemic Mukherjee, Pratik Lim, Tze Chwan Chawla, Ashish Chou, Hong Peh, Wilfred C G BJR Open Practice and Policy The rapid and mostly uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic over the past 4 months has overwhelmed many healthcare systems worldwide. In Singapore, while our public healthcare institutions were considered well prepared due to our prior experience with the SARS outbreak, there was an unexpected surge of infected patients over the recent 2 months to deal with. We describe our radiology department’s experience in modifying operational practices and implementing strict infection control measures aimed at minimizing disease transmission and mitigating the potential impact of possible staff infection. From the perspective of serving a medium-sized regional hospital and limited by physical and manpower constraints, our radiology department had to adapt quickly and modify our initial responses and practices as the disease scenario changed. We have also enumerated some guidelines for planning future radiology departments. The British Institute of Radiology. 2020-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7594887/ /pubmed/33178977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjro.20200017 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Practice and Policy Mukherjee, Pratik Lim, Tze Chwan Chawla, Ashish Chou, Hong Peh, Wilfred C G Adaptability and responsiveness: keys to operational measures in a regional hospital radiology department during the current COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Adaptability and responsiveness: keys to operational measures in a regional hospital radiology department during the current COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Adaptability and responsiveness: keys to operational measures in a regional hospital radiology department during the current COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Adaptability and responsiveness: keys to operational measures in a regional hospital radiology department during the current COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Adaptability and responsiveness: keys to operational measures in a regional hospital radiology department during the current COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Adaptability and responsiveness: keys to operational measures in a regional hospital radiology department during the current COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | adaptability and responsiveness: keys to operational measures in a regional hospital radiology department during the current covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Practice and Policy |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33178977 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjro.20200017 |
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