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Methodology for designing intrahospital transportation of patients with suspected infectious disease that limits infection spread risk in China
AIMS: The transport of patients suspected of having COVID-19 requires careful consideration. Using paths selected at random and not accounting for person flow along the path are risk factors for infection spread. Intrahospital transportation (IHT) protocols and guidelines should be used to help redu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9845581/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36684915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.926872 |
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author | Guo, Yuan Li, Yanchu Wang, Yanjun Liang, Pengpeng He, Xiaoli Yu, Bingjie Chen, Fangyu Zeng, Qianhui |
author_facet | Guo, Yuan Li, Yanchu Wang, Yanjun Liang, Pengpeng He, Xiaoli Yu, Bingjie Chen, Fangyu Zeng, Qianhui |
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description | AIMS: The transport of patients suspected of having COVID-19 requires careful consideration. Using paths selected at random and not accounting for person flow along the path are risk factors for infection spread. Intrahospital transportation (IHT) protocols and guidelines should be used to help reduce the risk of secondary virus transmission during transport. This study aimed to propose optimal IHT for patients with an infectious disease presenting in an out-patient area. DESIGN: The map of a West China Hospital was used. We also used field investigation findings and simulated person flow to establish pathway length and transportation time. We identified three optimum pathways and estimated safety boundary marks, including a patient transportation border (PTB) and safety transportation border (STB). Finally, IHT, PTB, and STP formed a virtual transport pipeline (VTP) and a traceable IHT management system, which can generate a virtual isolation space. RESULTS: The three pathways met efficiency, accessibility, and by-stander flow criteria. No facility characteristic modification was required. CONCLUSIONS: Using virtual models to identify pathways through out-patient hospital areas may help reduce the risk of infection spread. |
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spelling | pubmed-98455812023-01-19 Methodology for designing intrahospital transportation of patients with suspected infectious disease that limits infection spread risk in China Guo, Yuan Li, Yanchu Wang, Yanjun Liang, Pengpeng He, Xiaoli Yu, Bingjie Chen, Fangyu Zeng, Qianhui Front Public Health Public Health AIMS: The transport of patients suspected of having COVID-19 requires careful consideration. Using paths selected at random and not accounting for person flow along the path are risk factors for infection spread. Intrahospital transportation (IHT) protocols and guidelines should be used to help reduce the risk of secondary virus transmission during transport. This study aimed to propose optimal IHT for patients with an infectious disease presenting in an out-patient area. DESIGN: The map of a West China Hospital was used. We also used field investigation findings and simulated person flow to establish pathway length and transportation time. We identified three optimum pathways and estimated safety boundary marks, including a patient transportation border (PTB) and safety transportation border (STB). Finally, IHT, PTB, and STP formed a virtual transport pipeline (VTP) and a traceable IHT management system, which can generate a virtual isolation space. RESULTS: The three pathways met efficiency, accessibility, and by-stander flow criteria. No facility characteristic modification was required. CONCLUSIONS: Using virtual models to identify pathways through out-patient hospital areas may help reduce the risk of infection spread. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9845581/ /pubmed/36684915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.926872 Text en Copyright © 2023 Guo, Li, Wang, Liang, He, Yu, Chen and Zeng. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Guo, Yuan Li, Yanchu Wang, Yanjun Liang, Pengpeng He, Xiaoli Yu, Bingjie Chen, Fangyu Zeng, Qianhui Methodology for designing intrahospital transportation of patients with suspected infectious disease that limits infection spread risk in China |
title | Methodology for designing intrahospital transportation of patients with suspected infectious disease that limits infection spread risk in China |
title_full | Methodology for designing intrahospital transportation of patients with suspected infectious disease that limits infection spread risk in China |
title_fullStr | Methodology for designing intrahospital transportation of patients with suspected infectious disease that limits infection spread risk in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Methodology for designing intrahospital transportation of patients with suspected infectious disease that limits infection spread risk in China |
title_short | Methodology for designing intrahospital transportation of patients with suspected infectious disease that limits infection spread risk in China |
title_sort | methodology for designing intrahospital transportation of patients with suspected infectious disease that limits infection spread risk in china |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9845581/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36684915 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.926872 |
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