title: Hospital waste generation during an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Taiwan.
abstract: During the SARS outbreak in Taiwan, the number of ambulatory patients and inpatients treated at one medical center decreased by 40%-70% because of the increasing number of SARS patients. At the peak of the epidemic, the amount of hospital infectious waste had increased from a norm of 0.85 kg per patient-day to 2.7 kg per patient-day. However, the hospital was able to return the generation of waste to normal levels within 10 days.
authors: Institute of Environmental Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 40424.
authors: Chow F
authors: CF
authors: Chiang
authors: Fung C
authors: FC
authors: Sung
authors: Fang H
authors: FH
authors: Chang
authors: Ching T
authors: CT
authors: Tsai