The Military Treatment Facility COVID-19 Response in an Isolated Rural Environment: Challenges and Lessons Learned
| Autor: | William O Murray, Breslin T Gillis, William J. Brown |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Economic growth
Contingency plan COVID-19 Nurses Supplement Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) SARS-CoV-2 Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Military Treatment Facility COVID-19 General Medicine Tertiary care Rural environment Military personnel Military Personnel Political science Pandemic Humans AcademicSubjects/MED00010 Delivery of Health Care Pandemics Healthcare system |
| Zdroj: | Military Medicine |
| ISSN: | 1930-613X |
| Popis: | The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remains an extraordinary event that continues to strain healthcare systems worldwide. Unlike the military treatment facilities (MTFs) in the USA, which have ready access to tertiary care facilities, those MTFs in foreign countries confront a host of challenges in meeting mission requirements. In this article, we discuss the MTFs’ COVID-19 response in the rural environment of Bavaria, Germany. Relevant factors including regional and clinic response, force health protection, and contingency planning, which influenced the MTFs response, are identified. These factors are further analyzed from a “lessons learned” perspective, and recommendations to shape the future response to a pandemic are provided. This current crisis portends a future where pandemics may remain an omnipresent threat. |
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