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

Published: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2009]
Copyright Date: ©2009
Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators: Altevogt, Bruce M. and Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Guidance for Establishing Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations

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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.

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ISBN

0309144302
9780309144308

Note

Title from resource home page (viewed Oct. 19, 2009).
"Released On: September 24, 2009."

Funding Information

Sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Dept. of Health and Human services HHSP23320042509XI

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