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Volume 11, Number 7—July 2005
Research

Emergency Department Response to SARS, Taiwan

Wei-Kung Chen*Comments to Author , Hong-Dar Isaac Wu*, Cheng-Chieh Lin†, and Yi-Chang Cheng†
Author affiliations: *China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; †China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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Table 2

Supply of personal protection equipment (PPE) in emergency departments by hospital level and type

PPE Hospital level
Hospital type
A (%), n = 15 B (%), n = 28 C (%), n = 57 p value Public (%), n = 30 Private (%), n = 70 p value
Basic PPE
Head or shoe covers 13 (87) 25 (89) 52 (91) 0.862 27 (90) 63 (90) 1.000
Goggles 12 (80) 21 (75) 46 (81) 0.529 27 (90) 52 (74) 0.182
Face shield 15 (100) 25 (89) 47 (82) 0.182 26(87) 61(87) 0.948
Gloves 14 (93) 24 (86) 55 (96) 0.187 27 (90) 66 (94) 0.425
Apron 11 (73) 22 (79) 42 (74) 0.876 22 (73) 53 (76) 0.805
Disposable gown 10 (67) 25 (89) 35 (61) 0.030 23 (77) 47 (67) 0.476
Surgical mask 10 (67) 17 (61) 38 (67) 0.855 21 (70) 44 (63) 0.493
N95 respiratory mask 12 (80) 23 (82) 56 (98) 0.014 26 (87) 65 (93) 0.322
High grade PPE
P100/N100/FFP3 11 (73) 13 (46) 5 (9) 0.000 14 (47) 15 (21) 0.011
Powered air-purifying respirators 6 (40) 2 (7) 4 (7) 0.001 5 (17) 7 (12) 0.347

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