PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Ini Adelaja AU - Meelad Sayma AU - Henry Walton AU - Greta McLachlan AU - James de Boisanger AU - Sam Bartlett-Pestell AU - Emma Roche AU - Vanita Gandhi AU - Gavin J Wilson AU - Zara Brookes AU - Chee Yeen Fung AU - Heather Macfarlane AU - Annakan Navaratnam AU - Peter Scolding AU - Sara Hurley TI - A comprehensive hospital agile preparedness (CHAPs) tool for pandemic preparedness, based on the COVID-19 experience AID - 10.7861/fhj.2020-0030 DP - 2020 Apr 29 TA - Future Healthcare Journal PG - fhj.2020-0030 4099 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2020/05/04/fhj.2020-0030.short 4100 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2020/05/04/fhj.2020-0030.full AB - COVID-19 presents an unprecedented challenge to hospitals and the systems in which they operate. The primary exponential surge of COVID-19 cases is arguably the most devastating event a hospital will face. In some countries, these surges during the initial outbreak of the disease have resulted in hospitals suffering from significant resource strain, leading to excess patient mortality and negatively impacting staff wellbeing. As experience builds in managing these surges, it has become evident that agile, tailored planning tools are required. The comprehensive hospital agile preparedness (CHAPs) tool provides clinical planners with six key domains to consider that frequently create resource strain during COVID-19; it also allows local planners to identify issues unique to their hospital, system or region. Although this tool has been developed from COVID-19 experiences, it has potential to be modified for a variety of pandemic scenarios according to transmission modes, rates and critical care resource requirements.