Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

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Personal Protective Equipment and Antiviral Drug Use during Hospitalization for Suspected Avian or Pandemic Influenza¹

Ashwin Swaminathan*, Rhea Martin*, Sandi Gamon*, Craig Aboltins†, Eugene Athan‡, George Braitberg*, Michael G. Catton§, Louise Cooley¶, Dominic E. Dwyer#, Deidre Edmonds*, Damon P. Eisen**, Kelly Hosking*, Andrew J. Hughes‡, Paul D. Johnson*††, Andrew V Maclean‡‡, Mary O’Reilly‡‡, S. Erica Peters§§, Rhonda L. Stuart¶¶, Rodney Moran##, and M. Lindsay Grayson*††***

Author affiliations: *Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; †St. Vincent’s Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ‡Barwon Health, Geelong, Victoria, Australia; §Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ¶Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; #Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; **Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ††University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ‡‡Box Hill Hospital–Eastern Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; §§Western Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ¶¶Monash Medical Centre–Southern Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ##Department of Human Services, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ***Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;

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Table 2

Participating institutions and time patient spent in each area*

Characteristic	Hospital
Characteristic	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
State	VIC	VIC	VIC	VIC	VIC	TAS	VIC	VIC	NSW
Urban/regional	Urban	Urban	Urban	Urban	Regional	Urban	Urban	Urban	Urban
Inpatient beds, no.	840	320	750	450	400	490	400	400	880
Annual admissions	67,700	40,000	79,500	47,200	61,200	52,300	45,300	93,100	71,600
Total simulation time, h	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	2.5	2.5
Triage time, h	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1
ED time, h†	2	2.9	3	1.9	2.2	1.5	2.4	2.3‡	2.4‡
Ward time, h	3.7	2.8	3	3.9	3.7	4.4	3.5	–	–

*VIC, Victoria; TAS, Tasmania; NSW, New South Wales; ED, emergency department.
†Includes time spent in ED radiology unit.
‡Simulation of avian or pandemic influenza ended prematurely because beds were needed.

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¹This research was presented in part at the 47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Chicago, Illinois, USA, September 17-20, 2007.

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