Barriers to integrating crisis standards of care principles into international disaster response plans : workshop summary /

Barriers to integrating crisis standards of care principles into international disaster response plans : workshop summary /

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Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2012.
Description:	xi, 30 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Disaster Medicine -- standards -- Congresses. Delivery of Health Care, Integrated -- standards -- Congresses. Emergency Medical Services -- standards -- Congresses. Health Policy -- congresses. Standard of Care -- standards -- Congresses. Disaster medicine -- Standards -- Congresses. Emergency medical services -- Standards -- Congresses. Integrated delivery of health care -- Standards -- Congresses. Medical policy -- Standards -- Congresses. Emergency medical services -- Standards. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8831358

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Other authors / contributors:	Altevogt, Bruce M. Stroud, Clare. Wizemann, Theresa M. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events. World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine (17th : 2011 : Beijing, China)
ISBN:	9780309221788 0309221781
Notes:	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. Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-25).
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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Surge capacity planning and crisis standards of care
The International Health Regulations treaty
Closing comments.