Reducing hospital admissions for COVID-19 at a dedicated screening centre in Singapore

Tan, Glorijoy Shi En; Ang, Hou; Manauis, Charmaine Malenab; Chua, John Mingzhou; Gao, Cynthia; Ng, Filipina; Wong, Chen Seong; Ng, Oon-Tek; Marimuthu, Kalisvar; Chan, Madelynn; Leo, Yee‐Sin; Vasoo, Shawn

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2020.05.005

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“…Lockdowns were not the only measures taken to protect public health. Asian countries which had experience with other viral outbreaks rapidly implemented strict movement restrictions and suspended all unnecessary activities, but in parallel ramped up testing for virus, as well as tracking and isolating cases and contacts [38]. At the same time, China in response to the surge of cases, built new, specially equipped hospitals to increase the number of intensive care beds, while in Korea, hotels were repurposed as care units exclusively for patients suffering from Covid-19.…”

Section: Lockdown and Social Distancementioning

confidence: 99%

The global impact of the coronavirus pandemic

Hiscott

Alexandridi

Muscolini

et al. 2020

Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews

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Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre-including this research content-immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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Section: Lockdown and Social Distancementioning

confidence: 99%

The global impact of the coronavirus pandemic

Hiscott

Alexandridi

Muscolini

et al. 2020

Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews

286

170

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“…Before this, these cases were received at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), a purpose-built facility that had been designated to lead the national response. 7,13 At that point in time, NCID was screening 100-200 patients a day with the numbers steadily increasing. Plans were thus made for our ED to accommodate the diverted patient flow, which approximated 30-40 patients a day.…”

Section: Phasementioning

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“…On March 20, 2020, as part of the national containment response, our hospital was tasked with receiving COVID‐19 suspect cases referred from primary care and transported by a dedicated ambulance service. Before this, these cases were received at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), a purpose‐built facility that had been designated to lead the national response 7,13 . At that point in time, NCID was screening 100–200 patients a day with the numbers steadily increasing.…”

Section: Managing Changing Patient Epidemiology In Phasesmentioning

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Dynamic emergency department response to the evolving COVID‐19 pandemic: the experience of a tertiary hospital in Singapore

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has placed large stressors on emergency departments (EDs) worldwide. As the pandemic progressed, EDs faced changing patient epidemiology and numbers. Our ED needed to rapidly transform to deal with the risk of COVID‐19. Having limited floor space, we opted for a phased, dynamic response that allowed us to adapt the ED multiple times as the epidemiology of the pandemic evolved. The principles behind our response include guiding ED operations with data, enhancing infection control practices, and being prepared to transform areas of the ED to care for different groups of patients. Our experience can serve to guide other EDs in planning their response to surge capacity and ED operations during such pandemics.

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“…Identifying unreported infections or hidden asymptomatic transmission nodes is quite important as it facilitates the effective implementation of containment strategies. Evidently, spreading awareness about the disease and mass testing has played a critical role in the containment of the disease or in approaching a stable endemic region in some countries such as Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Qatar [15] , [74] , [109] , [123] . As reflected in the values of

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, intervention response data from various countries show that restrictions such as lockdown, border closures, social distancing, and decisions to lift/relax restrictions have a significant impact on the progression of the epidemic [126] .…”

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confidence: 99%

A review of mathematical model-based scenario analysis and interventions for COVID-19

Padmanabhan¹,

Abed²,

Meskin³

et al. 2021

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

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Mathematical model-based analysis has proven its potential as a critical tool in the battle against COVID-19 by enabling better understanding of the disease transmission dynamics, deeper analysis of the cost-effectiveness of various scenarios, and more accurate forecast of the trends with and without interventions. However, due to the outpouring of information and disparity between reported mathematical models, there exists a need for a more concise and unified discussion pertaining to the mathematical modeling of COVID-19 to overcome related skepticism. Towards this goal, this paper presents a review of mathematical model-based scenario analysis and interventions for COVID-19 with the main objectives of (1) including a brief overview of the existing reviews on mathematical models, (2) providing an integrated framework to unify models, (3) investigating various mitigation strategies and model parameters that reflect the effect of interventions, (4) discussing different mathematical models used to conduct scenario-based analysis, and (5) surveying active control methods used to combat COVID-19.

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Reducing hospital admissions for COVID-19 at a dedicated screening centre in Singapore

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

The global impact of the coronavirus pandemic

The global impact of the coronavirus pandemic

Dynamic emergency department response to the evolving COVID‐19 pandemic: the experience of a tertiary hospital in Singapore

A review of mathematical model-based scenario analysis and interventions for COVID-19

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