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Practices and Drills
How to Design and Evaluate Drills/Exercises?
- AHRQ
- Tool for Evaluating Core Elements of Hospital Disaster Drills (HHS/AHRQ, June, 2008)
- Development of Models for Emergency Preparedness (HHS/AHRQ, August 2005)
- Evaluation of Hospital Disaster Drills: Introduction (HHS/AHRQ, April 2004)
- Evaluation of Hospital Disaster Drills, Triage Zone Module
- Training of Hospital Staff to Respond to a Mass Casualty Incident
- Other
- The Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program Standardized policy, methodology, and language for designing, developing, conducting, and evaluating all exercises (HSEEP)
- Electronic Mass Casualty Assessment & Planning Scenarios (EMCAPS) (Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response)
- Standalone disaster scenario modeling software for drill planning and education
- EMCAPS estimates casualties arising from selected biological, chemical, radiological (dirty bomb) or explosive attacks
For Academic and Community Medical Centers
- Waeckerle JF, Seamans S, Whiteside M, Pons PT, White S, Burstein JL, Murray R; Task Force of Health Care and Emergency Services Professionals on Preparedness for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Incidents. Executive summary: Developing objectives, content, and competencies for the training of emergency medical technicians, emergency physicians, and emergency nurses to care for casualties resulting from nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC) incidents. Ann Emerg Med. 2001 Jun;37(6):587-601. [PubMed Citation]
- Braun BI, Wineman NV, Finn NL, Barbera JA, Schmaltz SP, Loeb JM. Integrating hospitals into community emergency preparedness planning. Ann Intern Med. 2006 Jun 6;144(11):799-811. [PubMed Citation]
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