id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-255827-xz87wg74 Sills, Marion R. Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United States 2011-09-17 .txt text/plain 3663 183 48 Assessing use of capacity in the context of a lowvirulence infl uenza pandemic can provide insight into how a more virulent virus might directly affect children's hospitals and indirectly affect all health care systems throughout their catchment areas. The objectives of this study were to 1) compare occupancy at US tertiary care children's hospitals during the pandemic period with occupancy during the 2008-09 seasonal infl uenza outbreak, 2) measure how close each hospital came to exhausting capacity for inpatient beds, and 3) measure the effect on capacity if pandemic (H1N1) 2009 during fall 2009 had been more severe. To measure the effect on capacity of a more severe outbreak of pandemic (H1N1) 2009, we calculated the number of ED IRI visits and the ED-to-inpatient admission rate for ED IRI visits for the 26 PHIS hospitals for which ED data were available. ./cache/cord-255827-xz87wg74.txt ./txt/cord-255827-xz87wg74.txt