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Emergency preparedness : state efforts to plan for medical surge could benefit from shared guidance for allocating scarce medical resources : testimony before the Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight, Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives / statement of Cynthia A. Bascetta.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Bascetta, Cynthia A., 1953-
- Series:
- Testimony ; GAO-10-381T.
- Testimony ; GAO-10-381T
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disaster medicine--United States--States--Planning.
- Disaster medicine.
- Emergency management--United States--States--Planning.
- Emergency management.
- Disaster Planning--organization & administration.
- State Government.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Disaster Planning--organization & administration.
- State Government.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (16 pages).
- Other Title:
- State efforts to plan for medical surge could benefit from shared guidance for allocating scarce medical resources
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2010]
- Summary:
- Potential terrorist attacks and the possibility of naturally occurring disease outbreaks have raised concerns about the "surge capacity" of the nation's health care systems to respond to mass casualty events. The statement GAO is issuing today summarizes a June 2008 report, Emergency Preparedness: States Are Planning for Medical Surge, but Could Benefit from Shared Guidance for Allocating Scare Medical Resources (GAO-08-668). In that report, GAO was asked to examine the assistance the federal government had provided to help states prepare for medical surge and what states had done to prepare for medical surge. To do this GAO reviewed documents from the 50 states and federal agencies and interviewed officials from a judgmental sample of 20 states and from federal agencies, as well as emergency preparedness experts.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF title screen (GAO, viewed Mar. 8, 2010).
- "For release ... January 25, 2010."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 547359952
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