Research Catalog

Title

Guidance for establishing crisis standards of care for use in disaster situations : a letter report / Committee on Guidance for Establishing Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Bruce M. Altevogt ... [et al.], editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Publication

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2009

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Details

Additional Authors

• Altevogt, Bruce M.
• Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Guidance for Establishing Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations

Description

x, 150 : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

This report focuses on articulating current concepts and guidance that can assist state and local public health officials, healthcare facilities, and professionals in the development of systematic and comprehensive policies and protocols for crisis standards of care in disasters where resources are scarce, as well as provide guidance to clinicians, health care institutions, and state and local public health officials for how those crisis standards of care should be implemented in a disaster situation.

Subject

• Disaster medicine > United States
• Emergency medical services > Utilization > United States
• Emergency management > United States
• Disaster Medicine > standards
• Delivery of Health Care > standards
• Disasters

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliogaphical references (p. 93-109).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online.

Funding (note)

• Sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Dept. of Health and Human services

ISBN

• 9780309144308
• 0309144302

OCLC

• ocn457910937
• 457910937
• SCSB-5493620

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries