Laboratory Surge Capacity and Pandemic Influenza

Meltzer, Martin I.; McNeill, K. Mills; Miller, Joseph D.

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Laboratory Surge Capacity and Pandemic Influenza

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Jan 2010
By Meltzer, Martin I. ; McNeill, K. Mills ; Miller, Joseph D.

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Meltzer, Martin I. ; McNeill, K. Mills ; Miller, Joseph D.
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In this issue, Crawford et al. describe their experiences running a clinical diagnostic laboratory during the first 3 weeks of the influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak (1). During the early weeks of the outbreak, their laboratory, which serves 15 hospitals and affiliated physician practices in the greater New York City metropolitan area, experienced an approximately 8x increase in respiratory virus testing, reaching a maximum of about 900 samples processed in 1 day.
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Clinical Laboratory Information Systems Commentary Disease Outbreaks Humans Influenza, Human Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype Laboratories Laboratories, Hospital Pandemics Surge Capacity Workforce
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Emerg Infect Dis. 16(1):147-148.
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Journal Article
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16
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1
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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