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Volume 10, Number 5, May 2004

Hospital Preparedness and SARS

Mona R. Loutfy,*† Tamara Wallington,‡ Tim Rutledge,† Barbara Mederski,† Keith Rose,† Sue Kwolek,† Donna McRitchie,† Azra Ali,† Bryan Wolff,† Diane White,† Edward Glassman,† Marianna Ofner,§ Don E. Low,¶ Lisa Berger,‡ Allison McGeer,¶ Tom Wong,§ David Baron,† and Glenn Berall†
*McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; †North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario; ‡Toronto Public Health, Toronto, Ontario; §Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; and ¶Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Appendix. Standardized admission orders for patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome. A hospitalist is a general internist who works in the hospital covering the war and intensive care unit; CBC, complete blood count; AST, aspartate transaminases; ALT, alanine transaminases; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; HBsAg, hepatitis B surface antigen; prn, pro re nata, i.e., when necessary; q4h, every 4 hours.

 

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