Hospital waste generation during an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Taiwan
| Autor: | Fung C Sung, Fang H Chang, Ching T Tsai, Chow F Chiang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology 030106 microbiology Taiwan Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Disease Outbreaks 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Infection control Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Respiratory system Medical Waste Disposal Intensive care medicine Infection Control business.industry Public health Respiratory disease Outbreak medicine.disease Hospitals Infectious Diseases Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus Hospital waste Ambulatory Emergency medicine Viral disease business |
| Zdroj: | Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 27(5) |
| ISSN: | 0899-823X |
| Popis: | During the SARS outbreak in Taiwan, the number of ambulatory patients and inpatients treated at one medical center decreased by 40%-70% because of the increasing number of SARS patients. A the peak of the epidemic, the amount of hospital infectious waste had increased from a norm of 0.85 kg per patient-day to 2.7 kg per patient-day. However, the hospital was able to return the generation of waste to normal levels within 10 days. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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