Surge Capacity of Taipei’s Regional Emergency Medical System during COVID-19: A System Dynamics Approach

Table 2

Standard ratios of physicians and nurses to beds in regional emergency medical system institutions.

Bed category		Physician/patient ratio
General beds	Acute care beds	1 : 10
Specialized and other beds		1 : 10
Chronic care beds (n < 50)		2 (with 1 physician being a specialist physician)
Bed category		Nurse/patient ratio
General beds	General acute care beds	1 : 8∼1 : 15
	General acute psychiatric care beds	1 : 3
Specialized beds	Intensive care beds	1 : 2
	Burn intensive care beds	1 : 2
	Burn beds	1 : 2
	Infant patient beds	1 : 3
	Beds for infants with moderate to critical illness	1 : 2
	Negative pressure isolation beds	1 : 2
	Positive pressure isolation beds	1 : 12
	Regular isolation beds	1 : 12
	Subacute ventilators care beds	1 : 2
	Chronic ventilators care beds	1 : 12
	Hospice beds	1 : 3
	Isolation beds for acute bone marrow transplant	1 : 3
	Nuclear medicine beds	1 : 3
Others	Surgical recovery beds	1 : 3
	Emergency observation beds	1 : 2
	Hemodialysis beds	1 : 2
	Infant beds	1 : 12
	Psychiatric day care beds	1 : 20