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 3
Implemented infectious control measures in different hospitals by level and type*
| Infection control measures (ICM) | 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 | |
| Basic ICM | |||||||
| Entrance body temperature screen | 15 (100) | 28 (100) | 57 (100) | - | 30 (100) | 70 (100) | - |
| Visitors restriction | 14 (93) | 24 (86) | 55 (96) | 0.193 | 30 (100) | 63 (90) | 0.347 |
| Quarantine of fever patients outside of EDs | 14 (93) | 28 (100) | 56 (98) | 0.341 | 29 (97) | 69 (99) | 0.533 |
| Quarantine fever patients in isolation room | 15 (100) | 24 (86) | 46 (81) | 0.158 | 26 (87) | 59 (84) | 0.760 |
| Instituted fever screening station | 15 (100) | 28 (100) | 55 (96) | 0.847 | 30 (100) | 68 (97) | 0.373 |
| Additional ICM | |||||||
| Instituted fever triage ward | 11 (73) | 22 (79) | 38 (67) | 0.252 | 24 (80) | 47 (67) | 0.194 |
| Restricted fever patient admission | 13 (87) | 21 (75) | 52 (91) | 0.128 | 26 (87) | 60 (86) | 0.900 |
| Restricted patients transfer in | 5 (33) | 7 (25) | 31 (54) | 0.026 | 13 (43) | 30 (43) | 0.965 |
| Suspected case-patients transfer out | 4 (27) | 9 (32) | 43 (75) | 0.000 | 12 (40) | 44 (63) | 0.048 |
| SARS screening team | 8 (53) | 13 (87) | 40 (70) | 0.087 | 16 (53) | 45 (64) | 0.303 |
| Closure of ED | 3 (20) | 5 (18) | 15 (26) | 0.654 | 9 (30) | 14 (20) | 0.276 |
*ED, emergency department; SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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