Regional responsibility and coordination of appropriate inpatient care capacities for patients with COVID-19 - the German DISPENSE model.

ABSTRACT: As of late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge to health care systems worldwide. Rapidly rising local COVID-19 incidence rates, result in demand for high hospital and intensive care bed capacities on short notice. A detailed up-to-date regional surveillance of the dynamics of the pandemic, precise prediction of required inpatient capacities of care as well as a centralized coordination of the distribution of regional patient fluxes is needed to ensure optimal patient care. In March 2020, the German federal state of Saxony established three COVID-19 coordination centers located at each of its maximum care hospitals, namely the University Hospitals Dresden and Leipzig and the hospital Chemnitz. Each center has coordinated inpatient care facilities for the three regions East, Nor

SUBMITTER: Lunsmann BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8794159 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature