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Guidance for establishing crisis standards of care for use in disaster situations : a letter report / Committee on Guidance for Establishing Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Bruce M. Altevogt ... [et al.], editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disaster medicine--United States.
- Disaster medicine.
- Emergency medical services--Utilization--United States.
- Emergency medical services.
- Emergency management--United States.
- Emergency management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This report focuses on articulating current concepts and guidance that can assist state and local public health officials, healthcare facilities, and professionals in the development of systematic and comprehensive policies and protocols for crisis standards of care in disasters where resources are scarce, as well as provide guidance to clinicians, health care institutions, and state and local public health officials for how those crisis standards of care should be implemented in a disaster situation. -- Source other than Library of Congress.
- Contents:
- ""Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Transmittal Letter ""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""METHODS""; ""CRISIS STANDARDS OF CARE: THE VISION""; ""DEVELOPING CRISIS STANDARDS OF CARE PROTOCOLS: A STATE PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY PROCESS""; ""ETHICAL FRAMEWORK""; ""COMMUNITY AND PROVIDER ENGAGEMENT, EDUCATION, AND COMMUNICATION""; ""LEGAL ISSUES IN EMERGENCIES""; ""OPERATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF CRISIS STANDARDS OF CARE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""A References""; ""B Glossary""; ""C Crisis Standards of Care Implementation Guidance Scenarios""; ""D Workshop Agenda""; ""E Committee Biographical Information""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliogaphical references (p. 93-109).
- ISBN:
- 0-309-14548-1
- 1-282-41249-3
- 9786612412493
- 0-309-14431-0
- OCLC:
- 923280837
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