@article{ref1,
title="The performance-level model of hospital decontamination preparedness",
journal="American journal of disaster medicine",
year="2008",
author="Phelps, Scot and Doering, Garrett",
volume="3",
number="3",
pages="157-163",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Describe a multilevel model of decontamination capacity for hospitals. DESIGN: Descriptive model. SETTING: Acute care hospitals with decontamination responsibilities. PATIENTS, PARTICIPANTS: None. INTERVENTIONS: None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): None. RESULTS: This multilevel model of defining decontamination capacity would allow more realistic assessment of current capacity, allow for fluctuating service levels depending on time of day, incorporate realistic ramp-up and ramp-down of decontamination services, allow for a defined fall-back decontamination model should decontamination processes fail, allow hospitals to define long-term decontamination service level goals, and allow better understanding of when and why to focus on low-risk/low-resource patients rather than high-risk/high-resource patients. CONCLUSIONS: This multiple-level model would allow for more realistic and effective hospital-based decontamination service models and should become part of the national decontamination paradigm.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1932-149X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}