title: Hospital capacity during an influenza pandemic-Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009.
abstract: At a major referral hospital in the Southern Hemisphere, the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic brought increased critical care demand and more unscheduled nursing absences. Because of careful preparedness planning, including rapid expansion and redistribution of the numbers of available beds and staff, hospital surge capacity was not exceeded.
authors.affiliation: Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. emeites@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Elissa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Meites
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Farias
authors.forename: Lucrecia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Raffo
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Albalak
authors.forename: Oreste Luis
authors.initials: OL
authors.lastname: Carlino
authors.forename: L Clifford
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: McDonald
authors.forename: Marc-Alain
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Widdowson
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006801:Humans; D053118:Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D055872:Surge Capacity