The content is available as a PDF (336.1 KB).
editorial . 2020 Oct 18:ciaa1596. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1596
Hospital transfers across U.S. regions to address the “space” shortage in a pandemic: a public good
George L Anesi
1,2,3,✉
George L Anesi, MD, MSCE, MBE
1
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
3
Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Find articles by George L Anesi
1
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
3
Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
✉
Corresponding Author: George L. Anesi, MD MSCE MBE, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce Street, 5037 Gates Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021, george.anesi@uphs.upenn.edu, Tel: 215-908-4563
Received 2020 Oct 11.
Keywords: capacity strain, pandemic preparedness, COVID-19
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model)
This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic or until permissions are revoked in writing. Upon expiration of these permissions, PMC is granted a perpetual license to make this article available via PMC and Europe PMC, consistent with existing copyright protections.
PMCID: PMC7665414 PMID: 33070198
See "Inter-Region Transfers for Pandemic Surges", ciaa1549.