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ReviewLancet (London, England)2020

Fangcang shelter hospitals: a novel concept for responding to public health emergencies.

Simiao Chen, Zongjiu Zhang, Juntao Yang, Jian Wang, Xiaohui Zhai, Till Bärnighausen, Chen Wang

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Review in Lancet (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 348 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

348 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Simiao ChenHeidelberg Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Zongjiu ZhangNational Health Commission of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, China.
Juntao YangState Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. Electronic address: yangjt@pumc.edu.cn.
Jian WangNational Center for Medical Service Administration, Beijing, China.
Xiaohui ZhaiNational Center for Medical Service Administration, Beijing, China.
Till BärnighausenHeidelberg Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China; Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Chen WangChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China; National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, Beijing, China; Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China; Chinese Academy of Engeering, Beijing, China. Electronic address: wangchen@pumc.edu.cn.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fangcang shelter hospitals are a novel public health concept. They were implemented for the first time in China in February, 2020, to tackle the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. The Fangcang shelter hospitals in China were large-scale, temporary hospitals, rapidly built by converting existing public venues, such as stadiums and exhibition centres, into health-care facilities. They served to isolate patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 from their families and communities, while providing medical care, disease monitoring, food, shelter, and social activities. We document the development of Fangcang shelter hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak in China and explain their three key characteristics (rapid construction, massive scale, and low cost) and five essential functions (isolation, triage, basic medical care, frequent monitoring and rapid referral, and essential living and social engagement). Fangcang shelter hospitals could be powerful components of national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as future epidemics and public health emergencies.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsEmergenciesFacility Design and ConstructionHospitals, SpecialMobile Health UnitsPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusChinaCost ControlCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksHumansInfection ControlPatient IsolationSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32247320
PMCPMC7270591

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