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 4
Features of infectious control measures in different hospitals by level and type*
| Response to the SARS outbreak | 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 | |
| Timing of PPE (complete preparedness) | 0.132 | 0.082 | |||||
| Early stage | 4 (27) | 2 (7) | 14 (25) | 3 (10) | 17 (24) | ||
| Late stage | 11 (73) | 26 (93) | 43 (75) | 27 (90) | 53 (76) | ||
| Start of PPE use | 0.015 | 0.006 | |||||
| From ED workers themselves | 1 (7) | 2 (8) | 8 (14) | 3 (10) | 8 (11) | ||
| From ED administrators | 9 (60) | 13 (46) | 13 (23) | 17 (57) | 18 (26) | ||
| From hospital administrators | 5 (33) | 13 (46) | 36 (63) | 10 (33) | 44 (63) | ||
| Timing of ICMs (complete set-up) | 0.087 | 0.559 | |||||
| Early stage | 3 (20) | 8 (29) | 24 (42) | 10 (33) | 24 (34) | ||
| Late stage | 12 (80) | 20 (71) | 33 (58) | 20 (67) | 46 (66) | ||
| Order of infection measures | 0.058 | 0.136 | |||||
| From ED workers themselves | 1 (7) | 1 (4) | 7 (12) | 3 (10) | 7 (10) | ||
| From ED administrators | 9 (60) | 13 (46) | 15 (26) | 16 (53) | 21 (30) | ||
| From hospital administrators | 5 (33) | 14 (50) | 35 (62) | 11 (37) | 42 (60) | ||
*SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome; PPE, personal protective equipment; ICM, infection control measures; ED, emergency department.
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