Dearth of infectious diseases physicians as the USA faces a global pandemic

There remains a shortage of testing kits, scalable infrastructure, and personal protective equipment to keep health-care workers and first responders safe, as well as an absence of adequately run clinical trials or clear recommendations from many of the governing bodies to guide practice. According...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Lancet infectious diseases 2020-06, Vol.20 (6), p.648-649
1. Verfasser:	Hussaini, Syed M Qasim
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antibiotics Betacoronavirus Cardiology Clinical trials Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control Coronaviruses Costs COVID-19 Disease control Disease transmission Emergency response Global Health Health care Honing Hospital costs Humans Immigration Infectious Disease Medicine Infectious diseases Nosocomial infections Oncology Pandemics Pandemics - prevention & control Patients Physicians Physicians - supply & distribution Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control Protective equipment Reimbursement Mechanisms SARS-CoV-2 Sepsis Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 United States - epidemiology Workforce
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Zusammenfassung:	There remains a shortage of testing kits, scalable infrastructure, and personal protective equipment to keep health-care workers and first responders safe, as well as an absence of adequately run clinical trials or clear recommendations from many of the governing bodies to guide practice. According to the National Resident Matching Program statistics for the most recent physician fellowship match in 2020, 84 (21%) of 406 available infectious diseases trainee positions in the USA went unfilled, compared with two (
ISSN:	1473-3099 1474-4457
DOI:	10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30377-7