Research Article
Surge Capacity of Taipei’s Regional Emergency Medical System during COVID-19: A System Dynamics Approach
Table 1
Availability of physicians, nurses, and various types of hospital beds in Taipei’s regional emergency medical system.
| Total number of internal medicine physicians | 2,394 | Acute care beds | 12,051 | Acute economy beds | 154 | Acute general psychiatric beds | 841 | Acute economy psychiatric beds | 12 | Acute intensive care beds | 1,861 | Acute burn beds | 50 | Burn intensive care beds | 38 | Infant patient beds | 327 | Beds for infants with moderate to critical illness | 44 | Negative pressure isolation beds | 367 | Positive pressure isolation beds | 37 | General isolation beds | 161 | Subacute ventilators care beds | 199 | Chronic ventilators care beds | 445 | Hospice beds | 178 | Total number of nurses | 29,659 | Isolation beds for acute bone marrow transplant | 27 | Psychiatric outpatient ward | 185 | Nuclear medicine beds | 13 | Acute copayment beds (single) | 1,857 | Acute copayment beds (double) | 4,528 | Single psychiatric beds (copayment required) | 40 | Hospice beds (copayment fee required) | 85 | Chronic care patient beds | 146 | Chronic care copayment beds (single) | 35 | Chronic care copayment beds (double) | 56 | ER observation beds | 858 | Hemodialysis beds | 1,575 | Infant cribs | 419 | Surgical recovery beds | 385 |
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