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Hospital capacity during an influenza pandemic-Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009
Elissa Meites1, Daniel Farias, Lucrecia Raffo
1Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. emeites@cdc.gov
Abstract:
At a major referral hospital in the Southern Hemisphere, the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic brought increased critical care demand and more unscheduled nursing absences. Because of careful preparedness planning, including rapid expansion and redistribution of the numbers of available beds and staff, hospital surge capacity was not exceeded.
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