TY - JOUR
T1 - Hospital response to the COVID-19 outbreak: the experience in Shanghai, China
AU - Zhang, Yuxia
AU - Sun, Zhan
AU - Latour, Jos M.
AU - Hu, Bijie
AU - Qian, Juying
PY - 2020/3/25
Y1 - 2020/3/25
N2 - On 20th January 2020, the first COVID-19 case was reported in Shanghai, China. As
of 12th March 2020, 344 cases with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection have
been detected in Shanghai, of which three died, 321 patients are discharged, 20
patients still receive ongoing treatments (Shanghai Municipal Health Commission,
2020). All confirmed patients with COVID-19 were centralised in Shanghai Public
Health Medical Centre to receive standardised treatments. Shanghai is an international
metropolis with more than 27 million residents, of which 9.7 million are commuting
population. It has been a challenge for Shanghai to control the COVID-19 outbreak
among the high density and high mobility population. On 21st January 2020, Shanghai
Municipal Health Commission set up fever clinics in 110 hospitals as frontlines
services to screen suspected patients. The hospitals went into a ‘state of alert’ and
adopted strategies to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak (Wang, et al., 2020; Cohen
and Normile, 2020).
AB - On 20th January 2020, the first COVID-19 case was reported in Shanghai, China. As
of 12th March 2020, 344 cases with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection have
been detected in Shanghai, of which three died, 321 patients are discharged, 20
patients still receive ongoing treatments (Shanghai Municipal Health Commission,
2020). All confirmed patients with COVID-19 were centralised in Shanghai Public
Health Medical Centre to receive standardised treatments. Shanghai is an international
metropolis with more than 27 million residents, of which 9.7 million are commuting
population. It has been a challenge for Shanghai to control the COVID-19 outbreak
among the high density and high mobility population. On 21st January 2020, Shanghai
Municipal Health Commission set up fever clinics in 110 hospitals as frontlines
services to screen suspected patients. The hospitals went into a ‘state of alert’ and
adopted strategies to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak (Wang, et al., 2020; Cohen
and Normile, 2020).
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/context/nm-research/article/1255/viewcontent/Zhang_etal_COVID_19_HospitalResponse_JANaccepted20200318.pdf
U2 - 10.1111/jan.14364
DO - 10.1111/jan.14364
M3 - Article
SN - 0309-2402
VL - 0
JO - Journal of Advanced Nursing
JF - Journal of Advanced Nursing
IS - 0
ER -
