Barriers to integrating crisis standards of care principles into international disaster response plans workshop summary
When a nation or region prepares for public health emergencies such as a pandemic influenza, a large-scale earthquake, or any major disaster scenario in which the health system may be destroyed or stressed to its limits, it is important to describe how standards of care would change due to shortages...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C.
National Academies Press
2012, c2012
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| Summary: | When a nation or region prepares for public health emergencies such as a pandemic influenza, a large-scale earthquake, or any major disaster scenario in which the health system may be destroyed or stressed to its limits, it is important to describe how standards of care would change due to shortages of critical resources. At the 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, the IOM Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness sponsored a session that focused on the promise of and challenges to integrating crisis standards of care principles into international disaster response plans |
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| Item Description: | Summarizes presentations and commentary from a session at the 17th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WCDEM) held May 31 to June 3, 2011, in Beijing, China |
| Physical Description: | xi, 30 p. ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0309221781 9780309221788 |