Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nelson, Christopher D

Titel

Recommended infrastructure standards for mass antibiotic dispensing

Ort / Verlag

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Health

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Introduction -- Approach to Standards Development -- Recommended Standards on the Number and Location of PODs -- Recommended Standards for Internal POD Operations -- Recommended Standards for POD Staffing -- Recommended Standards on POD Security -- Next Steps -- Appendix A: Instrument for Data Collection from CRI Sites -- Appendix B: List of Panelists -- Appendix C: Location Modeling and Analysis -- Appendix D: Modeling and Analysis of POD Operations and Staffing
• Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $7 billion to enhance state and local preparedness for bioterrorism attacks, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other large-scale public health emergencies. A central component of this effort involves the ability to dispense antibiotics and other life-saving medical countermeasures to large populations under short timelines. This report presents recommended standards for points of dispensing (or PODs), locations where the public would receive life-saving antibiotics or other medical countermeasures during a large-scale public health emergency. The standards, which are designed to apply to widely divergent jurisdictions, rely on expert panel evaluations, current POD planning practices, and computer-modeled scenarios