Cohorting Dengue Patients Improves the Quality of Care and Clinical Outcome.

• Main Authors: Lucy C S Lum (Author), Sharifah Faridah Syed Omar (Author), Sasheela Sri La Sri Ponnampalavanar (Author), Lian H Tan (Author), Shamala Devi Sekaran (Author), Adeeba Kamarulzaman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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INTRODUCTION:The increasing incidence of dengue among adults in Malaysia and other countries has important implications for health services. Before 2004, in order to cope with the surge in adult dengue admissions, each of the six medical wards in a university hospital took turns daily to admit and m...