Addressing Surge Capacity in a Mass Casualty
Event. Bioterrorism Preparedness Issue Brief, No. 9,
December 2005, 8 pp. Summarizes a Web conference that examined some of the
ways resources might be deployed in response to a mass casualty event. (AHRQ
06-0027)
Addressing the Smallpox Threat: Issues,
Strategies, and Tools. Bioterrorism Preparedness Issue Brief, No. 1, February 2004, 6 pp. Summarizes an audio-conference that
examined the implementation of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention's smallpox vaccination program and strategies to assist public
health officials in responding to a potential smallpox outbreak. (AHRQ
04-P006)
AHRQ's Bioterrorism and Health System
Preparedness Initiative. Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality, August 2006. Provides information about AHRQ's bioterrorism and
health system preparedness initiative, describing resources and examples of
funded initiatives. (AHRQ 06-M045)
Altered Standards of Care in Mass Casualty
Events. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, March 2005,
43 pp. White Paper summarizes the recommendations of a group of experts who
met in August 2004 to discuss the provision of health and medical care in a
mass casualty event. (AHRQ 05-0043)
Bioterrorism and Other Public Health
Emergencies: Tools and Models for Planning and
Preparedness
Adapting Community Call Centers for Crisis
Support: A Model for Home-Based Care and Monitoring. Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, September 2007, 222 pp. Describes the
development, testing, and implementation of a model to enable community health
call centers—such as poison control centers, nurse advice lines, and
other hotlines—to support home management and shelter-in-place
approaches in certain mass casualty or health emergency events. (AHRQ
07-0048)
Emergency Preparedness Atlas: U.S. Nursing
Home and Hospital Facilities. Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality, April 2007, 281 pp. Provides an overview of the role and potential
needs of nursing homes in the event of a public health emergency, presents a
series of case studies illustrating the ways in which nursing homes may be
used to accommodate a surge of patients in six States, and presents an atlas
of full-color maps of selected health care facilities for all 50 States and
the District of Columbia. (AHRQ 07-0029-2). CD-ROM (AHRQ
07-0029-2-CD)
Mass Medical Care with Scarce Resources: A
Community Planning Guide. Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality, February 2007, 166 pp. A guide to assist planners at the facility,
community, State, and Federal levels in their efforts to plan for and respond
to a mass casualty event in the context of broader emergency planning. (AHRQ
07-0001)
Nursing Homes in Public Health Emergencies:
Special Needs and Potential Roles. E. Root, J. Amoozegar, S.
Bernard, May 2007, 50 pp. Presents findings from a series of focus group
discussions about disaster and bioterrorism-related planning activities among
nursing homes in Southern California and in five States: North Carolina,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Utah, as well as the influence of State
regulations on nursing homes. (AHRQ 07-0029-1)
Pediatric Terrorism and Disaster
Preparedness; A Resource for Pediatricians. Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, October 2006, CD-ROM and 34 pp summary. Discusses the
various roles and responsibilities of community- and hospital-based
pediatricians in preparing for and responding to natural disasters and
bioterrorism events to ensure that the special needs of children are
considered and incorporated into planning at the local, State, regional, and
Federal levels.
Summary. October 2006 (AHRQ
06(07)-0056-1) Full Report (CD-ROM). October 2006
(06(07)-0056-CD)
Changing Organizations for Their Likely
Mass-Casualties Future. J. Begun, J. Jiang, Advances in
Health Care Management 4:2004,163-180. Investigates how
organizations can change in order to be better prepared for unforeseen,
catastrophic events in general, and bioterrorism in particular. (AHRQ
05-R004)
Community-Based Mass Prophylaxis: A Planning
Guide for Public Health Preparedness. Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, August 2004, 74 pp. Planning guide to assist public
health and emergency management officials devise comprehensive mass
prophylaxis plans to ensure that civilian populations have timely access to
necessary antibiotics and/or vaccines in the event of a bioterrorist attack or
natural disease outbreak. (AHRQ 04-0044)
Current Status of Surge Research. S.
Phillips, Academic Emergency Medicine 13(11): October 2006,
1103-1108. Describes research on emergency department preparedness and surge
capacity and focuses primarily on the work of the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality in this area. (AHRQ 07-R023)
Decontamination of Children: Preparedness and
Response for Hospital Emergency Departments. Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, October 2005, 27-minute video. Demonstrates
for emergency responders and hospital emergency department staff how to safely
decontaminate children who have been exposed to hazardous chemicals, including
those from a bioterrorist attack. DVD (AHRQ 05-0036-DVD);
Video (AHRQ 05-0036-VD)
Developing Alternative Approaches to Mass
Casualty Care: The Role of the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality. Bioterrorism Preparedness Issue Brief, No. 11,
September 2006, 6 pp. Reviews AHRQ's research on mass casualty care,
describing projects funded by AHRQ that have made major contributions to that
effort. (AHRQ 06-0073)
Development of Models for Emergency
Preparedness. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, August
2005, 161 pp. Summarizes current evidence-based, best demonstrated practices
relating to preparedness for health care professionals in the topics of
personal protective equipment, decontamination, isolation/quarantine, and
laboratory capacity. (AHRQ 05-0099)
Disaster Planning Drills and Readiness
Assessment. Bioterrorism Preparedness Issue Brief, No. 2,
February 2004, 4 pp. Summarizes an audio-conference that examined resources to
assist hospitals and other health systems in preparing for bioterrorism
disasters, and in conducting disaster response. (AHRQ 04-P007)
Emergency Severity Index, Version 4.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, May 2005. Presents a five-level
emergency department triage algorithm that provides clinically relevant
stratification of patients into five groups from most urgent to least urgent
on the basis of acuity and resource needs. Everything You Need to
Know, Set of two DVDs (AHRQ 05-0046-DVD Implementation
Handbook, spiral bound, 82 pp, and poster (AHRQ 05-0046-2)
Evaluation of Hospital Disaster Drills: A
Module-Based Approach. Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality, April 2004, 128 pp. In collaboration with Johns Hopkins University,
presents an approach to the evaluation of hospital disaster drills that
consists of a series of evaluation modules and addendums to identify specific
weaknesses that can be targeted for improvement, and to promote continuing
efforts to strengthen hospital disaster preparedness. (AHRQ 04-0032)
CD-ROM (AHRQ 04-0032-CD)
Health Emergency Assistance Line and Triage
Hub (HEALTH) Model. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
January 2005, 92 pp. Report helps planners determine the requirements,
specifications, and resources needed for developing an emergency contact
center such as the HEALTH model. (AHRQ 05-0040)
Linkages With Community Providers.
Bioterrorism Preparedness Issue Brief, No. 6, January 2005, 4 pp.
Summarizes a Web-assisted audio-conference that examined the role of community
providers in detecting and responding to a potential bioterrorist event or
other public health emergency, and also examined the efforts of a pediatric
practice-based research network to enable community-based providers to share
information on emerging public health threats. (AHRQ 05-0032)
Mass Prophylaxis: Building Blocks for
Community Preparedness. Bioterrorism Preparedness Issue Brief, No. 10, June 2006, 8 pp. Describes five projects funded by AHRQ that
provide tools that local planners can use to prepare their communities for
mass prophylaxis. (AHRQ 06-0050)
Optimizing Surge Capacity: Hospital
Assessment and Planning. Bioterrorism Preparedness Issue
Brief, No. 3, February 2004, 4 pp. Summarizes an audio-conference that
examined tools to assist hospitals and other health care facilities to assess
their current capacity and develop a plan to achieve surge capacity. (AHRQ
04-P008)
Optimizing Surge Capacity: Regional Efforts
in Bioterrorism Readiness. Bioterrorism Preparedness Issue
Brief, No. 4, February 2004, 6 pp. Summarizes an audioconference that
examined regional strategies to identify and mobilize resources to respond to
a public health disaster such as a bioterrorist attack. (AHRQ 04-P009)
Project XTREME. Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality, March 2007. A CD-ROM and DVD set for use in
cross-training non-respiratory therapy health care professionals in basic
respiratory care and ventilator management in the event of a public health
emergency. Model for Health Professionals' Cross-Training for Mass
Casualty Respiratory Needs (Report; CD-ROM).
Cross-Training Respiratory Extenders for Medical
Emergencies (Training program, DVD). March 2007
CD-ROM and DVD Set. (AHRQ 07-0017-MW)
Reopening Shuttered Hospitals to Expand Surge
Capacity. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, February
2006, 193 pp. Offers comprehensive guidance on how to reopen a shuttered or
partially shuttered hospital to serve as a medical surge facility. Covers
physical structure, supply and staffing needs, security, patient transport,
and information requirements. Includes a Surge Tool Kit and Facility
Checklist, 171 pp. in a three-ring binder. Tool Kit guides staff
step by step on planning, reopening, operating, and closing down the hospital.
Checklist provides detailed prompts for facility inspection with space for
notes on findings. Report (AHRQ 06-0029);
Surge Tool Kit and Facility Checklist (AHRQ
06-0029-A)
Rocky Mountain Regional Care Model for
Bioterrrorist Events. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
August 2004. Model helps State and local officials quickly locate alternate
health care sites if hospitals are overwhelmed by patients due to a
bioterrorism attack or other public health emergency. Accompanying alternate
care site selection tool helps regional planners locate and rank potential
alternative sites such as stadiums or schools based on whether they have
adequate ventilation, plumbing, food supply, kitchen facilities, and other
factors. (AHRQ 04-0075)
The Role of Information Technology and
Surveillance Systems in Bioterrorism Readiness. Bioterrorism
Preparedness Issue Brief, No. 5, March 2005, 5 pp. Describes syndromic
monitoring systems and how they are used to track trends within patient
populations and to establish early warning of disease outbreaks, including
potential bioterrorist activity. (AHRQ 05-0072)
Surge Capacity—Education and Training
for a Qualified Workforce. Bioterrorism Preparedness Issue
Brief, No. 7, October 2004, 6 pp. Summarizes an audio-conference that
examined how education and training efforts are being used to create and
maintain the readiness of an appropriately trained workforce that can respond
to a sudden increase in surge capacity needs. (AHRQ 04-P028)
Surge Capacity: Facilities and
Equipment. Bioterrorism and Health System Preparedness Issue
Brief, No. 8, October 2005, 8 pp. Summarizes a Web-assisted
audio-conference devoted to the need for facilities and equipment as a
critical component in planning for surge capacity. (AHRQ 05(06)-0100)
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