Bracing for the Wave: a Multi-Institutional Survey Analysis of Inpatient Workforce Adaptations in the First Phase of COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical centers across the country have had to rapidly adapt clinician staffing strategies to accommodate large influxes of patients with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Objective

We sought to understand the adaptations and staffing strategies that US academic medical centers employed in the inpatient setting early in the spread of COVID-19, and to assess whether those changes were sustained during the first phase of the pandemic.

Design

Cross-sectional survey assessing organization-level, team-level, and clinician-level inpatient workforce adaptations.

Participants

Hospital medicine leadership at 27 academic medical centers in the USA.

Key results

Twenty-seven of 36 centers responded to the survey (75%). Widespread practices included

SUBMITTER: Linker AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8161717 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature