KMID : 0191120200350150152
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Journal of Korean Medical Science 2020 Volume.35 No. 15 p.152 ~ p.152
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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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Kim Shin-Woo
Lee Kyeong-Soo Kim Keon-Yeop Lee Jung-Jeung Kim Jong-Yeon
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Abstract
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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.
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KEYWORD
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Brief Severity Scoring System, Telephone, COVID-19, Facility Isolation, Therapeutic Living Center
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