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Equipment Ratios

Description

This dataframe contains inputs/assumptions for the commodities forecasted across care settings (e.g., inpatient, screening/triage, and isolation) and end users (e.g., HCW, patients).

Usage

equipment

Format

A data frame with 53 rows and 24 variables:

category: Equipment type category: testing, infection prevention & control (IPC), case management - biomedical equipment, or case management - accessories & consumables.
group: Sub-categories of groups within each category.
item: Item name, with details
unit: Unit of measurement of the item
reusable: TRUE/FALSE: Is this item reusable or not.
supplied_with: Other equipment this item is supplied with.
price: Price per unit of the item, in USD. Updated with each iteration of the ESFT, most recently in April 2022.
amount_per_inpatient_hcw_per_day: Amount per healthcare worker per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_inpatient_cleaner_per_day: Amount per cleaner per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_inpatient_inf_caregiver_per_day: Amount per informal caregiver per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_inpatient_ambworker_per_day: Amount per ambulance personnel per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_inpatient_biomed_eng_per_day: Amount per biomedical engineer per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_inpatient_sev_patient_per_day: Amount per severe patient per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_inpatient_crit_patient_per_day: Amount per critical patient per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_inpatient_sev_crit_patient_per_day: Amount per severe and critical patient per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_inpatient_sev_bed_per_day: Amount per severe bed per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_inpatient_crit_bed_per_day: Amount per critical bed per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_inpatient_sev_crit_bed_per_day: Amount per severe and critical bed per day in an inpatient setting.
amount_per_isolation_inf_caregiver_per_day: Amount per informal caregiver per day in an isolation setting.
amount_per_isolation_patient_per_day: Amount per mild or moderate patient per day in an isolation setting.
amount_per_screening_hcw_per_day: Amount per healthcare worker per day in a screening/triage setting.
amount_per_screening_patient_per_day: Amount per patient per day in a screening/triage setting.
amount_per_lab_tech_per_day: Amount per cleaner per day in a laboratory setting.
amount_per_lab_cleaner_per_day: Amount per cleaner per day in a laboratory setting.

Details

Here is the description of care settings and personnel as outlined in the ESFT tool:

Care Setting Descriptions:

Inpatient: Inpatient care for severe and critical patients
Screening/triage: Screening and triaging all suspected COVID-19 patients at first point of contact with the health care system (including those who ultimately test negative)
Isolation: Typically care provided at home or in a community facility (e.g., stadiums, gymnasiums, hotels) for mild/moderate patients
Laboratories: Labs where testing is conducted/processed

Personnel Descriptions (these definitions and ILO ISCO codes are in use in all tabs of the tool):

HCW: medical practitioners, including physicians, nursing professionals, and paramedical practitioners (ILO ISCO codes 2240, 2211, 2212, 2221, 3221, 5321, 3256)
Cleaners: cleaners and helpers (ILO ISCO code 9112)
Caregiver: patient carers such as parent, spouse, partner, etc.
Ambulancier: emergency paramedics and drivers (ILO ISCO codes 8322, 3258)
Patient: suspected case or person diagnosed with COVID-19 (can be further defined as a severe or critical or applicable to both)
Bed: equipment needed per patient bed (can be further defined as a severe or critical or applicable to both)

Note: It may appear as if there is double counting, especially when it comes to inpatient patients and beds. This is not the case - if there is a value for one (either bed or patient), there is no value for the other. Furthermore, if there are singular values for severe and critical, there will not be values in the both severe and critical cell.