COVID-19: Pandemic Contingency Planning for the Allergy and Immunology Clinic
COVID-19: Pandemic Contingency Planning for the Allergy and Immunology Clinic
In the event of a global infectious pandemic, drastic measures may be needed that limit or require adjustment of ambulatory allergy services. However, no rationale for how to prioritize service shut down and patient care exists. A consensus-based ad-hoc expert panel of allergy/immunology specialists from the United States and Canada developed a service and patient prioritization schematic to temporarily triage allergy/immunology services.