Sánchez-Taltavull, Daniel Castelo-Szekely, Violeta Candinas, Daniel Roldán, Edgar Beldi, Guido text monographic eng

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Protection of the healthcare workforce is of paramount importance for the care of patients in the setting of a pandemic such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Healthcare workers are at increased risk of becoming infected. The ideal organizational strategy to protect the workforce in a situation in which social distancing cannot be maintained remains to be determined. In this study, we have mathematically modelled strategies for the employment of the hospital workforce with the goal of simulating the health and productivity of the workers. The models were designed to determine if desynchronization of medical teams by dichotomizing the workers may protect the workforce. Our studies model workforce productivity and the efficiency of home office applied to the case of COVID-19. The results reveal that a desynchronization strategy in which two medical teams work alternating for 7 days increases the available workforce. Daniel Sánchez-Taltavull [and five others] To appear in: Journal of Theoretical Biology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110718 Epidemiology Models, Theoretical Desynchronization Strategy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519321001405?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519321001405?via%3Dihub 210505 20210505125621.0 D0001C000187