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Abstract

In the Czech Republic, the strategic data-based and organizational support for individual regions and for providers of acute care at the nationwide level is coordinated by the Ministry of Health. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country needed to very quickly implement a system for the monitoring, reporting, and overall management of hospital capacities. The aim of this viewpoint is to describe the purpose and basic functions of a web-based application named “Control Centre for Intensive Care,” which was developed and made available to meet the needs of systematic online technical support for the management of intensive inpatient care across the Czech Republic during the first wave of the pandemic in spring 2020. Two tools of key importance are described in the context of national methodology: one module for regular online updates and overall monitoring of currently free capacities of intensive care in real time, and a second module for online entering and overall record-keeping of requirements on medications for COVID-19 patients. A total of 134 intensive care providers and 927 users from hospitals across all 14 regions of the Czech Republic were registered in the central Control Centre for Intensive Care database as of March 31, 2021. This web-based application enabled continuous monitoring and decision-making during the mass surge of critical care from autumn 2020 to spring 2021. The Control Center for Intensive Care has become an indispensable part of a set of online tools that are employed on a regular basis for crisis management at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Title
Control Centre for Intensive Care as a Tool for Effective Coordination, Real-Time Monitoring, and Strategic Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author
Komenda, Martin  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Černý, Vladimír  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Šnajdárek, Petr  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Karolyi, Matěj  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Hejný, Miloš  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Panoška, Petr  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Jarkovský, Jiří  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Gregor, Jakub  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bulhart, Vojtěch  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Šnajdrová, Lenka  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Májek, Ondřej  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Vymazal, Tomáš  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Blatný, Jan  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Dušek, Ladislav  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
First page
e33149
Section
JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue
Publication year
2022
Publication date
Feb 2022
Publisher
Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor
e-ISSN
1438-8871
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2634285987
Copyright
© 2022. This work is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.