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Creator: Tolf, Eleanor, and Syra Madad.
Subject: Training and Exercises
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-06-18
Description: The purpose of this evaluation was to determine the effect of intensive, interactive training on hospital workers’ preparedness for special pathogen cases by utilizing the Frontline Facility Special Pathogens Training Course created by the Systemwide… -
Creator: DiLorenzo, M. A., C. A. Baker, J. J. Herstein, L. Evans, J. J. Lowe, S. G. Gibbs, and N. Bhadelia.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2021-02-15
Description: In response to the 2013-2016 Ebola virus disease outbreak, the US government designated certain healthcare institutions as Ebola treatment centers (ETCs) to better prepare for future emerging infectious disease outbreaks. This study investigated ETC… -
Creator: NETEC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2020-12-09
Description: This printable flyer infographic discusses the use of the HICS system with COVID-19. HICS helps hospitals prepare, mitigate, respond, and recover from an event that disrupts normal operations or threatens life, property, or the environment. -
Creator: Flinn, Jade B., Noreen A. Hynes, Lauren M. Sauer, Lisa L. Maragakis, and Brian T. Garibaldi.
Subject: Physical Infrastructure
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-09-04
Description: In response to the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016, the US Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) established 10 regional treatment centers, called biocontainment units (BCUs) to prepare and provide care for patients…Example only: NETEC provides this item for reference purposes but does not endorse its content. Newer versions may be in place at the providing institution.
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Creator: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
Subject: General
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-27
Description: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is rapidly developing and deploying resources to respond to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This page includes COVID-19 Response Resources and Guidelines. -
Creator: Madad, Syra, Joshua Moskovitz, Matthew R. Boyce, Nicholas V. Cagliuso, and Rebecca Katz.
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
Description: Over the past century, society has achieved great gains in medicine, public health, and health-care infrastructure, particularly in the areas of vaccines, antibiotics, sanitation, intensive care and medical technology. -
Creator: Predictive Healthcare team at Penn Medicine
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Hyperlink
Date Last Updated: 2020-03-16
Description: This tool was developed by the Predictive Healthcare team at Penn Medicine. For questions and comments please see their contact page. Code can be found on Github. You can join their Slack channel if you would like to get involved. Discrete-time SIR… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Emergency Management
Item Type: Guide
Date Last Updated: 2016-11-03
Description: Although pandemics occur infrequently, planning and preparing for a pandemic is important to ensure an effective response. Planning for and responding to a pandemic is complex and pandemics can affect everyone in a community. Therefore, public health… -
Creator: CDC
Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
Item Type: Checklist
Date Last Updated: 2019-08-02
Description: All U.S. healthcare facilities need to be prepared for new and emerging infectious disease threats such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). All hospitals should be equipped and ready to care for a limited number of infected… -
Creator: Bogucki, S., and A. Isakov.
Subject: Intake and Internal Transport
Item Type: Publication
Date Last Updated: 2015-05
Description: Many months into a still-worsening epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in three West African nations, the U.S. health care system was challenged by its first undiagnosed EVD patient presenting to a hospital emergency department (ED) in Dallas,…