Volume 11, Number 7—July 2005
Research
Emergency Department Response to SARS, Taiwan
Wei-Kung Chen*
, Hong-Dar Isaac Wu*, Cheng-Chieh Lin†, and Yi-Chang Cheng†
, Hong-Dar Isaac Wu*, Cheng-Chieh Lin†, and Yi-Chang Cheng†
Table 1
Effects of SARS epidemic on emergency departments*
| No. EDs with ED staff affected as follows† | Hospital level |
Hospital type |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A (%), N = 15 | B (%), N = 28 | C (%), N = 57 | p value | Public (%), N = 30 | Private (%), N = 70 | p value | |
| Fever and needed to stay at home | 7 (47) | 8 (29) | 5 (9) | 0.002 | 7 (23) | 13 (19) | 0.585 |
| Physician | 6 (40) | 1 (4) | 0 | 0.000 | 2 (7) | 5 (7) | 0.932 |
| Nursing staff | 6 (40) | 7 (25) | 5 (9) | 0.010 | 7 (23) | 11 (16) | 0.363 |
| Paramedic | 2 (13) | 4 (14) | 0 | 0.014 | 2 (7) | 4 (6) | 0.854 |
| Quarantine at home | 3 (20) | 7 (25) | 6 (11) | 0.208 | 7 (23) | 9 (13) | 0.190 |
| Physician | 3 (20) | 6(21) | 4 (7) | 0.122 | 7 (23) | 6 (9) | 0.044 |
| Nursing staff | 3 (20) | 6 (21) | 4 (7) | 0.122 | 5 (17) | 8 (11) | 0.475 |
| Paramedic | 2 (13) | 3 (11) | 3 (5) | 0.487 | 3 (10) | 5 (7) | 0.629 |
| Quarantine in hospital | 4 (27) | 2 (7) | 0 | 0.001 | 5 (17) | 1 (1) | 0.003 |
| Physician | 3 (20) | 1 (4) | 0 | 0.002 | 4 (13) | 0 | 0.002 |
| Nursing staff | 3 (20) | 2 (7) | 0 | 0.006 | 4 (13) | 1 (1) | 0.012 |
| Paramedic | 3 (20) | 1 (4) | 0 | 0.002 | 3 (10) | 1 (1) | 0.045 |
| Probable case-patients | 3 (20) | 3 (11) | 0 | 0.007 | 4 (13) | 2 (3) | 0.043 |
| Physician | 1 (7) | 0 | 1(2) | 0.057 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0.511 |
| Nursing staff | 3 (20) | 2 (7) | 0 | 0.006 | 3 (10) | 2 (3) | 0.133 |
| Paramedic | 3 (20) | 2 (7) | 0 | 0.006 | 3 (10) | 2 (3) | 0.133 |
*SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome; ED, emergency department.
†Represents the number of EDs that responded "yes" to at least 1 ED staff member in a given category of possible SARS impact. The number in parentheses is the percentage of the total EDs in a particular hospital level or type.
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