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@article{McCabe:2020:10.1186/s12916-020-01781-w,
author = {McCabe, R and Schmit, N and Christen, P and D'Aeth, J and Løchen, A and Rizmie, D and Nayagam, AS and Miraldo, M and Aylin, P and Bottle, R and Perez-Guzman, PN and Ghani, A and Ferguson, N and White, P and Hauck, K},
doi = {10.1186/s12916-020-01781-w},
journal = {BMC Medicine},
pages = {1--12},
title = {Adapting hospital capacity to meet changing demands during the COVID-19 pandemic},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01781-w},
volume = {18},
year = {2020}
}

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AB  - BackgroundTo calculate hospital surge capacity, achieved via hospital provision interventions implemented for the emergency treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and other patients through March to May 2020; to evaluate the conditions for admitting patients for elective surgery under varying admission levels of COVID-19 patients.MethodsWe analysed National Health Service (NHS) datasets and literature reviews to estimate hospital care capacity before the pandemic (pre-pandemic baseline) and to quantify the impact of interventions (cancellation of elective surgery, field hospitals, use of private hospitals, deployment of former medical staff and deployment of newly qualified medical staff) for treatment of adult COVID-19 patients, focusing on general and acute (G&A) and critical care (CC) beds, staff and ventilators.ResultsNHS England would not have had sufficient capacity to treat all COVID-19 and other patients in March and April 2020 without the hospital provision interventions, which alleviated significant shortfalls in CC nurses, CC and G&A beds and CC junior doctors. All elective surgery can be conducted at normal pre-pandemic levels provided the other interventions are sustained, but only if the daily number of COVID-19 patients occupying CC beds is not greater than 1550 in the whole of England. If the other interventions are not maintained, then elective surgery can only be conducted if the number of COVID-19 patients occupying CC beds is not greater than 320. However, there is greater national capacity to treat G&A patients: without interventions, it takes almost 10,000 G&A COVID-19 patients before any G&A elective patients would be unable to be accommodated.ConclusionsUnless COVID-19 hospitalisations drop to low levels, there is a continued need to enhance critical care capacity in England with field hospitals, use of private hospitals or deployment of former and newly qualified medical staff to allow some or all elective surge
AU  - McCabe,R
AU  - Schmit,N
AU  - Christen,P
AU  - D'Aeth,J
AU  - Løchen,A
AU  - Rizmie,D
AU  - Nayagam,AS
AU  - Miraldo,M
AU  - Aylin,P
AU  - Bottle,R
AU  - Perez-Guzman,PN
AU  - Ghani,A
AU  - Ferguson,N
AU  - White,P
AU  - Hauck,K
DO  - 10.1186/s12916-020-01781-w
EP  - 12
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1741-7015
SP  - 1
TI  - Adapting hospital capacity to meet changing demands during the COVID-19 pandemic
T2  - BMC Medicine
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01781-w
UR  - https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-020-01781-w
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/82440
VL  - 18
ER  -

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