Crisis Standards of Care: A Systems Framework for Catastrophic Disaster Response Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2012-07-26
Publisher: National Academies Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0309253462
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Crisis Standards of Care pdf
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Catastrophic disasters occurring in 2011 in the United States and worldwide--from the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, to the earthquake in New Zealand--have demonstrated that even prepared communities can be overwhelmed. In 2009, at the height of the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a committee of experts to develop national guidance for use by state and local public health officials and health-sector agencies and institutions in establishing and implementing standards of care that should apply in disaster situations-both naturally occurring and man-made-under conditions of scarce resources. Building on the work of phase one (which is described in IOM's 2009 letter report, Guidance for Establishing Crisis Download Crisis Standards of Care for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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