Abstract
The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in 2015 was an unprecedented challenge to academic medical centres in the Republic of Korea. It involved 186 confirmed cases and 38 fatalities across the country, and notably, nearly half of the cases were nosocomial infections [1]. This tragic outbreak led to a call for fundamental changes in the Korean health-care system to prepare for potential infectious disease outbreaks in the future [2,3]. Academic medical centres set out to transform their environment with two major goals of (i) preparedness for emerging infectious diseases, and (ii) reduction of nosocomial infections [4].
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