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Facilities for Centralized Isolation and Quarantine for the Observation and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic increased the burden on many healthcare systems and in the process, exposed the need for medical resources and physical space. While few studies discussed the efficient utilization of medical resources and physical space so far. Therefore, this study...
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THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier LTD on behalf of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Higher Education Press Limited Company.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8061092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33903828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2021.03.010 |
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author | Wang, Xianliang Wang, Jiao Shen, Jin Ji, John S. Pan, Lijun Liu, Hang Zhao, Kangfeng Li, Li Ying, Bo Fan, Lin Zhang, Liubo Wang, Lin Shi, Xiaoming |
author_facet | Wang, Xianliang Wang, Jiao Shen, Jin Ji, John S. Pan, Lijun Liu, Hang Zhao, Kangfeng Li, Li Ying, Bo Fan, Lin Zhang, Liubo Wang, Lin Shi, Xiaoming |
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description | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic increased the burden on many healthcare systems and in the process, exposed the need for medical resources and physical space. While few studies discussed the efficient utilization of medical resources and physical space so far. Therefore, this study aimed to summarize experiences related to facilities used for centralized isolation for medical observation and treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic in China and to provide suggestions to further improve the management of confirmed cases, suspected cases, and close contacts. In China, three types of facilities for centralized isolation (Fangcang shelter hospitals, refitted non-designated hospitals, and quarantine hotels) underwent retrofitting for the treatment and isolation of confirmed and suspected cases. These facilities mitigated the immediate high demand for space. Moreover, in order to minimize infection risks in these facilities, regulators and governmental agencies implemented new designs, management measures, and precautionary measures to minimize infection risk. Other countries and regions could refer to China's experience in optimally allocating social resources in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a conclusion, government should allocate social resources and construct centralized isolation and quarantine facilities for an emergency response, health authorities should issue regulations for centralized isolation facilities and pay strict attention to the daily management of these facilities, a multidisciplinary administration team is required to support the daily operation of a centralized isolation facility, in-depth studies and international collaboration on the centralized isolation policy are encouraged. |
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spelling | pubmed-80610922021-04-22 Facilities for Centralized Isolation and Quarantine for the Observation and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19 Wang, Xianliang Wang, Jiao Shen, Jin Ji, John S. Pan, Lijun Liu, Hang Zhao, Kangfeng Li, Li Ying, Bo Fan, Lin Zhang, Liubo Wang, Lin Shi, Xiaoming Engineering (Beijing) Research Public Health—Article The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic increased the burden on many healthcare systems and in the process, exposed the need for medical resources and physical space. While few studies discussed the efficient utilization of medical resources and physical space so far. Therefore, this study aimed to summarize experiences related to facilities used for centralized isolation for medical observation and treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic in China and to provide suggestions to further improve the management of confirmed cases, suspected cases, and close contacts. In China, three types of facilities for centralized isolation (Fangcang shelter hospitals, refitted non-designated hospitals, and quarantine hotels) underwent retrofitting for the treatment and isolation of confirmed and suspected cases. These facilities mitigated the immediate high demand for space. Moreover, in order to minimize infection risks in these facilities, regulators and governmental agencies implemented new designs, management measures, and precautionary measures to minimize infection risk. Other countries and regions could refer to China's experience in optimally allocating social resources in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a conclusion, government should allocate social resources and construct centralized isolation and quarantine facilities for an emergency response, health authorities should issue regulations for centralized isolation facilities and pay strict attention to the daily management of these facilities, a multidisciplinary administration team is required to support the daily operation of a centralized isolation facility, in-depth studies and international collaboration on the centralized isolation policy are encouraged. THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier LTD on behalf of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Higher Education Press Limited Company. 2021-07 2021-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8061092/ /pubmed/33903828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2021.03.010 Text en © 2021 THE AUTHORS 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Public Health—Article Wang, Xianliang Wang, Jiao Shen, Jin Ji, John S. Pan, Lijun Liu, Hang Zhao, Kangfeng Li, Li Ying, Bo Fan, Lin Zhang, Liubo Wang, Lin Shi, Xiaoming Facilities for Centralized Isolation and Quarantine for the Observation and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19 |
title | Facilities for Centralized Isolation and Quarantine for the Observation and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19 |
title_full | Facilities for Centralized Isolation and Quarantine for the Observation and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Facilities for Centralized Isolation and Quarantine for the Observation and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Facilities for Centralized Isolation and Quarantine for the Observation and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19 |
title_short | Facilities for Centralized Isolation and Quarantine for the Observation and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19 |
title_sort | facilities for centralized isolation and quarantine for the observation and treatment of patients with covid-19 |
topic | Research Public Health—Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8061092/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33903828 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2021.03.010 |
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