Health system performance and health system preparedness for the post-pandemic impact of COVID-19: A review

D Rathnayake, M Clarke… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Newly emerging infectious diseases have had damaging impacts on healthcare systems
throughout history and have been most acute in weaker health systems. With the COVID-19 …

Access to intensive care in 14 European countries: a spatial analysis of intensive care need and capacity in the light of COVID-19

J Bauer, D Brüggmann, D Klingelhöfer, W Maier… - Intensive care …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses major challenges to health-care
systems worldwide. This pandemic demonstrates the importance of timely access to …

An overview of hospital capacity planning and optimisation

P Humphreys, B Spratt, M Tariverdi, RL Burdett… - Healthcare, 2022 - mdpi.com
Health care is uncertain, dynamic, and fast growing. With digital technologies set to
revolutionise the industry, hospital capacity optimisation and planning have never been …

Assessing the hospital surge capacity of the Kenyan health system in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic

EW Barasa, PO Ouma, EA Okiro - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic will test the capacity of health systems worldwide and
especially so in low-and middle-income countries. The objective of this study was to assess …

Analysing health system capacity and preparedness for climate change

J Braithwaite, E Leask, CL Smith, G Dammery… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
While increasing literature demonstrating the direct and indirect impacts of climate change
focuses on health, the capacity and preparedness of healthcare systems to deal with these …

Hospital performance evaluation checklist in context of COVID-19 pandemic: Design and Validation

A Salarvand, A Khoshvaghti, S Sharififar… - Disaster Medicine and …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Objective: Around the world, pandemics have been considered among the main hazards in
the last 2 decades. Hospitals are 1 of the most important organizations responding to …

Developing and implementing an infection prevention and control program for a COVID-19 alternative care site in Philadelphia, PA

SN Tadavarthy, KA Finnegan, G Bernatowicz… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background On March 27, 2020, the city of Philadelphia was given permission by Temple
University to convert the Liacouras Center gymnasium to an alternate care site (ACS) to treat …

Outcomes among children and adults at risk of severe dengue in Sri Lanka: Opportunity for outpatient case management in countries with high disease burden

CK Bodinayake, ADS Nagahawatte… - PLoS Neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Healthcare systems in dengue-endemic countries are often overburdened due
to the high number of patients hospitalized according to dengue management guidelines …

Simultaneous detection of dengue virus serotypes in a dual-serotype-detection nucleic acid based lateral flow assay

B Das, S Samal, H Hamdi, MK Dash, G Singh - Diagnostic Microbiology and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Dengue virus (DENV) is an important arthropod-borne viral disease, with four antigenically
and genetically diverse serotypes (DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3, and DENV-4). Timely and …

The impact of hospital surge capacity during the 2009 influenza pandemic on patient safety: A systematic review

I Dhamanti, AA Suwantika, N Atika… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
During severe influenza pandemics, healthcare demand often exceeds clinical capacity for
routine care. This systematic study examined secondary and tertiary hospital surge capacity …