Hospital waste generation during an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Taiwan

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Title:	Hospital waste generation during an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Taiwan
Authors:	江舟峰(Chow-Feng Chiang);宋鴻樟(Sung F. C.);(Chang, F. H.);蔡清讚*
Contributors:	公共衛生學院風險管理學系
Date:	2006-05
Issue Date:	2009-08-19 16:50:41 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	During the SARS outbreak in Taiwan, the number of ambulatory patients and inpatients treated at one medical center decreased by 40%‐70% because of the increasing number of SARS patients. At the peak of the epidemic, the amount of hospital infectious waste had increased from a norm of 0.85 kg per patient‐day to 2.7 kg per patient‐day. However, the hospital was able to return the generation of waste to normal levels within 10 days.
Relation:	INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY5(27):519~522
Appears in Collections:	[Department of Health Risk Management] Journal articles

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