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A Brief Telephone Severity Scoring System and Therapeutic Living Centers Solved Acute Hospital-Bed Shortage during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Daegu, Korea

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Author(s)
Shin-Woo KimKyeong Soo LeeKeonyeop KimJung Jeung LeeJong-yeon Kim
Keimyung Author(s)
Lee, Jung Jeung
Department
Dept. of Preventive Medicine (예방의학)
Journal Title
Journal of Korean medical science
Issued Date
2020
Volume
35
Issue
15
Keyword
Brief Severity Scoring SystemTelephoneCOVID-19Facility IsolationTherapeutic Living Center
Abstract
With the epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, the number of infected patients was rapidly increasing in Daegu, Korea. With a maximum of 741 new patients per day in the city as of February 29, 2020, hospital-bed shortage was a great challenge to the local healthcare system. We developed and applied a remote brief severity scoring system, administered by telephone for assigning priority for hospitalization and arranging for facility isolation ("therapeutic living centers") for the patients starting on February 29, 2020. Fifteen centers were operated for the 3,033 admissions to the COVID-19 therapeutic living centers. Only 81 cases (2.67%) were transferred to hospitals after facility isolation. We think that this brief severity scoring system for COVID-19 worked safely to solve the hospital-bed shortage. Telephone scoring of the severity of disease and therapeutic living centers could be very useful in overcoming the shortage of hospital-beds that occurs during outbreaks of infectious diseases.
Keimyung Author(s)(Kor)
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Publisher
School of Medicine (의과대학)
Citation
Shin-Woo Kim et al. (2020). A Brief Telephone Severity Scoring System and Therapeutic Living Centers Solved Acute Hospital-Bed Shortage during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Daegu, Korea. Journal of Korean medical science, 35(15), e152. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e152
Type
Article
ISSN
1598-6357
Source
https://jkms.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e152
DOI
10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e152
URI
https://kumel.medlib.dsmc.or.kr/handle/2015.oak/43171
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