Pediatric hospital surge capacity in public health emergencies
By: prepared for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ; investigators, Edward W. Boyer, James Fitch, Michael Shannon.
Contributors: Fitch, James, M.D.; Shannon, Michael.; United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Series: AHRQ publication -- no. 09-0014
Publisher: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rockville, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781587633775
Subjects: Bioterrorism -- United States -- Safety measures; Children -- Hospitals -- United States -- Safety measures; Emergency management -- United States -- Planning; Disaster medicine -- United States -- Planning
Notes: "Public health emergency preparedness research"--Cover.

"Tools and models for planning and preparedness"--Cover.

"Prepared by: The Center for Biopreparedness, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School Boston MA; Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA."

"January 2009."

"Contract # 290-00-0020."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-32).

Available also on the Internet.
Table of contents: title: Challenges to an effective response to patient surges; title: Guidelines for pediatric hospital responses to increased patient volume; title: Emergency department response : surge of children with a communicable respiratory illness; title: Emergency department response : surge of children with a communicable foodborne or waterborne illness; title: Hospital response to patient surge; title: Employee responses during a surge of bioterrorism patients; title: Surge stress management; title: Preparation by general health care facilities for a surge of critically ill children; title: Security concerns unique to children; title: Emergency credentialing.