The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention and the Department of Nursing used lessons-learned during COVID-19 as a foundation to create a framework to be used as a guide for converting an inpatient unit to a pandemic-response unit. This article provides details of this framework and other lessons learned that can be applied to other pandemic pathogens.
Keywords: COVID; Clinical teamwork; Hospital infection prevention; In-patient; Infection control; Interdisciplinary.
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