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.
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INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 27(5)519~522
