Barriers to Integrating Crisis Standards of Care Principles into International Disaster Response Plans - Workshop Summary (Paperback)

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 Front Matter Workshop Summary Appendix A: References Appendix B: Agenda

General

Imprint:	National Academies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	2011
Authors:	Institute of Medicine • Board on Health Sciences Policy • Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events
Editors:	Theresa Wizemann • Clare Stroud • Bruce M Altevogt
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	42
ISBN-13:	978-0-309-22178-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Accident & emergency medicine > General
LSN:	0-309-22178-1
Barcode:	9780309221788

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