Public Health Preparedness Modeling

A colleague in Montgomery County forwarded to me an email from AHRQ about the Mass Evacuation Transportation Planning Model. According to the AHRQ web site, “This model estimates the time required to evacuate patients in healthcare facilities and transport them to receiving facilities.” The model was developed by Tom Rich and Myfanwy Callahan [...]

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Computer models are good for evaluating the performance of a system like a POD and finding the best way to distribute medication, but they cannot resolve the ethical issues involved in sharing limited resources. There is, of course, no easy answer to these problems. This week’s session on Hot Topics in Preparedness discussed [...]

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The Cambridge Advanced Practice Center for Emergency Preparedness has created a set of signs for use in PODs and similar settings. Each of the nine signs has a one-word description (in English and repeated in Spanish) and a pictogram. Colors are used to classify the signs into four basic categories.
The signs remind me [...]

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