Research in the context of coronavirus disease 2019: Considerations for critical care environments

Disasters and public health emergencies, such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), by their very nature, overwhelm the operational capacity of health services to provide their normal level and array of services. From a health service perspective, this may include any event that results in the need for a health service to adapt their business as usual practices in an attempt to restore and maintain the normal day-to-day health services and standards of care.1 This is of importance as the inability to provide normal operational capacity results in increased morbidity and mortality for those patients in the health service  and for those needing access to the health service.
Source: Australian Critical Care - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research