The Risk of Not Being Ready: A Novel Approach to Managing Constant Readiness of a High-Level Isolation Unit During Times of Inactivity
| Autor: | Brian T. Garibaldi, Jade Borromeo Flinn, Noreen A. Hynes, Lauren Sauer, Christopher Sulmonte, Jesse J. Benza |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Health (social science)
Isolation (health care) Health Personnel Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Hospitals Isolation 030231 tropical medicine Staffing Management Monitoring Policy and Law Unit (housing) Patient Isolation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Hospital Design and Construction 030212 general & internal medicine Equipment and Supplies Hospital Infection Control Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Civil Defense Healthcare worker medicine.disease Biocontainment Checklist Scale (social sciences) Emergency Medicine Business Medical emergency Risk assessment Safety Research |
| Zdroj: | Health Security. 18:212-218 |
| ISSN: | 2326-5108 2326-5094 |
| Popis: | The biocontainment unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital is a specially designed, inactive high-level isolation unit designated to care for patients infected with high-consequence pathogens. The unit team designed a facility-specific readiness scale and checklist that focus on infrastructure, consumable supplies, and staffing to assess activation readiness of the biocontainment unit. Over a period of 50 days and 14 days, these tools were used as part of a routine risk assessment to first identify barriers and then tier the impact of these barriers into activation categories of "Ready," "Ready with Considerations," and "Not Ready." The assessment identified the greatest risks to activation readiness were staffing and waste management capabilities. Assessing threats to activation readiness and the risk of not being ready should be a priority for maintaining facility, regional, and national capacity to safely isolate and care for patients infected with high-consequence pathogens while maintaining healthcare worker safety. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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