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An Evaluation of Community Assessment Tools (CATs) in Predicting Use of Clinical Interventions and Severe Outcomes during the A(H1N1)pdm09 Pandemic
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLOS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 9, p e75384 (2013)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2013.
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Abstract
- During severe influenza pandemics healthcare demand can exceed clinical capacity to provide normal standards of care. Community Assessment Tools (CATs) could provide a framework for triage decisions for hospital referral and admission. CATs have been developed based on evidence that supports the recognition of severe influenza and pneumonia in the community (including resource limited settings) for adults, children and infants, and serious feverish illness in children. CATs use six objective criteria and one subjective criterion, any one or more of which should prompt urgent referral and admission to hospital. A retrospective evaluation of the ability of CATs to predict use of hospital-based interventions and patient outcomes in a pandemic was made using the first recorded routine clinical assessment on or shortly after admission from 1520 unselected patients (800 female, 480 children
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Referral
Adolescent
Science
medicine.medical_treatment
Psychological intervention
Severity of Illness Index
Young Adult
Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype
Severity of illness
Health care
Influenza, Human
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
medicine
Humans
Public Health Surveillance
Intensive care medicine
Child
Aged
Mechanical ventilation
Aged, 80 and over
Multidisciplinary
business.industry
Mortality rate
Age Factors
Infant, Newborn
Oxygen Inhalation Therapy
Infant
Middle Aged
Triage
Respiration, Artificial
Patient Care Management
Child, Preschool
Cohort
Medicine
Female
business
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cb0d3de102ee3df3cec244145f927862