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Title: | Medicalized Hotel as an Alternative to Hospital Care for Management of Noncritical COVID-19 |
Author: | Torrallardona-Murphy, Orla Pericàs, Juan M. Rabaneda Lombarte, Neus Cubedo Culleré, Marta Cucchiari, David Calvo, Júlia Serralabós, Júlia Alvés, Elisenda Agelet, Aleix Hidalgo, Judit Alves, Eduarda García, Laura Sala, Marta Pereta, Irene Castells, Eva Suárez, Adolfo Carbonell, Anna Seijas, Núria Feu, Faust Alcaraz, Antonio Hernández, Carme Coloma, Emmanuel |
Keywords: | COVID-19 Assistència hospitalària Assistència sanitària COVID-19 Hospital care Medical care |
Issue Date: | 1-Sep-2021 |
Publisher: | American College of Physicians |
Abstract: | Background: Since the first wave of COVID-19, alternatives to conventional hospitalization have been proposed for the provision of different levels of care, ranging from shelter during quarantine to hospital-level medical care. Objective: To describe the adaptation of a hotel by a hospital-at-home team to provide hospital-level care to patients with COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic in Barcelona, Spain. Methods: Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (HCB) is a 750-bed, public, tertiary teaching hospital serving 560 000 persons in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Spain. In March 2020, the hospital-at-home unit was instructed to medicalize a hotel ('health hotel' [HH]) in downtown Barcelona. The aim of this initiative was to help decongest hospitals in the area by admitting patients with low dependency (Barthel Index score >60) and mild to severe COVID-19 from emergency departments or COVID-19 hospital wards, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clinical guidelines |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.7326/M21-1873 |
It is part of: | Annals of Internal Medicine, 2021, vol. 174, num. 9, p. 1338 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/192392 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.7326/M21-1873 |
ISSN: | 0003-4819 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística) |
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