On October 26, 2204, Dr. Bogdan made a presentation in a Web conference entitled Colorado's Health Emergency Line for the Public (COHELP): Addressing Surge Capacity through Information Exchange.
This is the text version of Dr. Bogdan's slide presentation. Select to access the PowerPoint® Slides (359 KB).
Gregory M. Bogdan, Ph.D.
Research Director
Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center
Denver Health
Denver Colorado
This slide contains a bar graph. The x-axis is labeled with cities and corresponding diseases: "Florida-Meningitis, Toronto-SARS, Trenton-Anthrax, NYC-WNV, Colorado-WNV." The y-axis is labeled "Hotline Contacts (percent population)" and marked at increments of "0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25." The shaded bar above "Florida" is at 25, "Toronto" is 10, "Trenton" is 10, "NYC" is 3, and "Colorado" is 1.
Below the graph is the following text: "Event specifics (bioterrorism, child-targeted, new emerging disease) will effect the amount of public concern and numbers of people having information or others needs."
*R. Lasker, Center for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health (www. cacsh.org).
This slide contains a series of text boxes and arrows. On the left is the text "general public" and "health professions" with respective arrows pointing to a large arrow containing the text "voice, fax, video, email, web." The large arrow points right to a box containing the text "MCC." Directly above this box is an arrow leading to a text box labeled "hospitals & healthcare facilities" and directly below the MCC box is another arrow leading to a text box labeled "local & state public health agencies." From the right of the MCC box is another large arrow labeled "fax, email, voice, web, video." This arrow points to the right to a final text box labeled "patient surges reduced by providing information and triage through multiple paths."
In the middle of this slide is a box containing the text "COHELP 877-462-2911." There are 6 text boxes with arrows pointing to this center box. Reading clockwise, the outside boxes contain the text "healthcare providers, schools, hospitals & EDs, health agencies, clinics, public."
In the middle of this slide is a box containing the text "COHELP." An arrow connects a text box above the center box with the text "caller." Pointing away from the center box are a series of 5 arrows each leading to its own text box. Moving from left to right the text boxes read "poison center," "nurse line," "local health agencies," CDPHE," and healthcare providers," respectively.
Toronto—SARS outbreak, Mar to Jun 2003.
Total Calls equals or is greater than 300,000.
COHELP—Two Outbreaks, Jul to Dec 2003
Total Calls equal 36,170.
Current as of December 2004
Internet Citation:
Colorado's Health Emergency Line for the Public (COHELP): Addressing Surge Capacity through Information Exchange. Text version of a slide presentation at a Web conference. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/news/ulp/btsurgemass/bogdantxt.htm
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