Reduction in Hospital Transfers at a US COVID-19 Alternate Care Site: Maintaining Surge Capacity Support in Imperial County, California.
Frank W ZhangColin A MeghooKatherine L StaatsElizabeth Perkins HayesMitch MetznerJulia SobelEric HultquistErin E NosteCharles E WrightAsha V DevereauxHoward D BackerPublished in: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness (2022)
The data suggest that continuous, real-time process-improvement interventions helped reduce the transfer rate back to hospitals from 36.7% to 14.5% and that an ACS is a viable option for managing symptomatic COVID-19 positive patients requiring hospital-level care when hospitals are overburdened.
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