Table 1.

Tabulated summary resources aimed to reduce the risk of intradepartmental cross-infection.

Abbreviation	Resource Description
PT	Pre-Triage: The pre-triage is an introduced physical location outside of the emergency department. Admitted patients enter here for the healthcare workers to assess whether the incoming patient should be regarded as infected by COVID-19 (COVID+) or not infected by COVID-19 (COVID−). Depending on the status, the patient will, in the case of COVID−, be directed the regular route via the emergency department reception or, in the case of COVID+, be fast-tracked directly to an available treatment room for proper isolation and treatment of the emergent condition the patient suffers.
E.TR.	Extra Treatment Rooms: Because of the COVID-19 pandemic situation, extra treatment rooms were introduced to be available for the emergency department. These additional treatment rooms were introduced to compensate for the higher occupancy of patients in the emergency department at the onset of the pandemic. In the case of the emergency department, they introduced four extra-treatment rooms.
WZ	A designated area was allocated for the precise purpose of enabling the fast-tracking of the patients classified as COVID+. In the instance where a patient who is COVID− has completed their treatment and requires either restitution or non-intensive follow-up, the treatment room may be deemed unnecessary for their further stay in the emergency department. Suppose no further treatment rooms are available for incoming COVID+ patients entering the emergency department. In that case, the COVID− patient may vacate the treatment room to allow for an incoming COVID+ patient to expeditiously receive proper isolation, thus minimizing cross-infection among other patients and healthcare workers within the emergency department.