Open AccessOne Year with the COVID-19 Pandemic - Lessons Learnt? Intersectoral Collaboration Measures Established during the Crisis Could Benefit Capacity and Patient Flow Management in Daily Clinical Practice
Author(s) -
M Hiller,
H Bracht,
S Schroeder
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
austin journal of public health and epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2381-9014
DOI - 10.26420/austinjpublichealthepidemiol.2021.1102
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , work (physics) , work flow , clinical practice , continuation , human resource management , medicine , business , nursing , psychology , medical emergency , knowledge management , computer science , engineering , pathology , mechanical engineering , industrial engineering , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , programming language
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way hospitals work. Some of the urgently established measures have proven to be so useful that they should be adopted in standard care. Recent research has assessed patient management, human resource planning and communication measures in terms of their impact and practicality for continuation in daily clinical practice. Strategies that were detached from the boundaries of departments and responsibilities in the COVID-19 pandemic and that have proven themselves under extreme conditions show a beneficial influence on patient flow and resource management as well as on the communication culture. The continuation of closer interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral cooperation in a “new clinical routine” could have a positive impact on personnel concepts, communication strategies, acute care capacities and the management of patient pathways.