Barriers to integrating crisis standards of care principles into international disaster response plans : workshop summary / Bruce M. Altevogt, Clare Stroud, and Theresa Wizemann, Rapporteurs, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

When a nation or region prepares for public health emergencies such as a pandemic influenza, a large-scale earthquake, or any major disaster scenario in which the health system may be destroyed or stressed to its limits, it is important to describe how standards of care would change due to shortages...

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