Critical Care Surge Capacity in U.S. Hospitals Strategies for Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 5/2020. This four-page document provides a list of strategies to help U.S. hospitals create critical care surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The list was created using a review of scientific literature about past outbreaks and the current COVID-19 pandemic, a survey of frontline clinicians conducted in collaboration with the American College of Emergency Physicians, and two roundtables conducted via teleconference with leading emergency and critical care physicians and public health and preparedness experts from around the country. (PDF)
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