Cheng Lionel Tim-Ee, Heilbrun Marta E, Sahani Dushyant, Tan Bien Soo, Klein Jeffrey S
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Department of Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
BJR Open. 2020 Dec 21;2(1):20200045. doi: 10.1259/bjro.20200045. eCollection 2020.
In this opinion piece derived from a webinar organized by the Radiological Society of North America and conducted in the spring of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders from three large North American and Asian academic radiology programs review the strategies employed at their respective institutions to address the impact of the pandemic on their departments. In the first segment, the author describes the approach taken in the radiology department at an 1800-bed Asian hospital system which focuses on the creation of capacity to accommodate over 5000 COVID-19 patients in early 2020, the sustaining of services during the surge, and the development of adaptive mechanisms to address future surges and pandemics. In the second segment, a large southwestern medical system addresses the creation of a long-term strategy to provide imaging services safely for staff and patients while simultaneously utilizing technology to maintain interprofessional connections. The final segment describes how a large multifacility health-care enterprise in the Pacific Northwest of the United States is developing strategies to successfully reemerge from the forced reduction in imaging services experienced during the COVID-19 surge in early 2020.
在这篇观点文章中，其源自北美放射学会组织的一次网络研讨会，并于2020年春季在新冠疫情期间举行，来自北美和亚洲三个大型学术放射项目的负责人回顾了各自机构所采用的策略，以应对疫情对其部门的影响。在第一部分，作者描述了一家拥有1800张床位的亚洲医院系统放射科所采取的方法，该方法聚焦于在2020年初创建容纳5000多名新冠患者的能力、在高峰期间维持服务，以及开发适应性机制以应对未来的高峰和疫情。在第二部分，一个大型西南医疗系统阐述了制定长期战略的情况，该战略旨在为工作人员和患者安全地提供影像服务，同时利用技术维持跨专业联系。最后一部分描述了美国太平洋西北地区的一个大型多机构医疗企业如何制定策略，以便从2020年初新冠疫情高峰期间影像服务被迫减少的情况中成功恢复过来。
