Barriers to integrating crisis standards of care principles into international disaster response plans
Subtitle: workshop summary
By: Bruce M. Altevogt, Clare Stroud, and Theresa Wizemann, Rapporteurs, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institiute of Medicine of the National Academies
Contributors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events; World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine (17th : 2011 : Beijing, China)
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
ISBN-13: 9780309221788
Subjects: Medical policy; Standards; Health Policy; Congresses; Disaster medicine; Emergency medical services; Integrated delivery of health care; Standard of Care; Disaster Medicine
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-25).

Also available in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Surge capacity planning and crisis standards of care; title: The International Health Regulations treaty; title: Closing comments.