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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

Richard Zane, MD, Dept of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, (617) 732-5640, RZANE@PARTNERS.ORG and Thomas F. Rich, Abt Associates Inc., 55 Wheeler St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

This session will provide an overview of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded project to develop recommendations for a national tracking, regulating, and movement system for casualties and evacuees that can be used during a mass casualty event, major municipal evacuation, or some combination of the two. The national system will be used by local, regional, state, federal responders to: (1) continuously monitor both the scope of the event and the pace of the response as new patients and/or evacuees are entered into the system in near real-time, (2) rapidly aggregate and analyze data from the patients and evacuees to inform decisions about response assets required, (3) assist with regulation of matching patient and evacuee needs with available transportation and other resources, and (4) track the movements of patients and evacuees throughout the system from their initial point of contact in the health care or evacuation system, through to the point of their ultimate disposition. In addition to developing recommendations for the national system, Abt Associates and Partners Healthcare are also developing web-based planning tools for estimating transportation requirements in the event of a mass casualty incident or evacuation.

Learning Objectives:

• At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to articulate both the preliminary recommendations for the national system and the implications of the national system on existing and planned patient tracking and resource availability systems in their jurisdictions.

Keywords: Emergency, Standards

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No