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Volume 11, Number 7—July 2005
Research

Emergency Department Response to SARS, Taiwan

Wei-Kung Chen*Comments to Author , Hong-Dar Isaac Wu*, Cheng-Chieh Lin†, and Yi-Chang Cheng†
Author affiliations: *China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; †China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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Table 3

Implemented infectious control measures in different hospitals by level and type*

Infection control measures (ICM) Hospital level
Hospital type
A (%), n = 15 B (%), n = 28 C (%), n = 57 p value Public (%), n = 30 Private (%), n = 70 p value
Basic ICM
Entrance body temperature screen 15 (100) 28 (100) 57 (100) - 30 (100) 70 (100) -
Visitors restriction 14 (93) 24 (86) 55 (96) 0.193 30 (100) 63 (90) 0.347
Quarantine of fever patients outside of EDs 14 (93) 28 (100) 56 (98) 0.341 29 (97) 69 (99) 0.533
Quarantine fever patients in isolation room 15 (100) 24 (86) 46 (81) 0.158 26 (87) 59 (84) 0.760
Instituted fever screening station 15 (100) 28 (100) 55 (96) 0.847 30 (100) 68 (97) 0.373
Additional ICM
Instituted fever triage ward 11 (73) 22 (79) 38 (67) 0.252 24 (80) 47 (67) 0.194
Restricted fever patient admission 13 (87) 21 (75) 52 (91) 0.128 26 (87) 60 (86) 0.900
Restricted patients transfer in 5 (33) 7 (25) 31 (54) 0.026 13 (43) 30 (43) 0.965
Suspected case-patients transfer out 4 (27) 9 (32) 43 (75) 0.000 12 (40) 44 (63) 0.048
SARS screening team 8 (53) 13 (87) 40 (70) 0.087 16 (53) 45 (64) 0.303
Closure of ED 3 (20) 5 (18) 15 (26) 0.654 9 (30) 14 (20) 0.276

*ED, emergency department; SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.

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