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Concepts in Disaster Medicine

Health Care Emergency Management: Establishing the Science of Managing Mass Casualty and Mass Effect Incidents

Anthony G. Macintyre, MD, Joseph A. Barbera, MD and Peter Brewster, BS

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr Anthony G. Macintyre, Dept of Emergency Medicine, ACC 2B, 2150 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20037 (e-mail: amacintyre{at}mfa.gwu.edu).

Particularly since 2001, the health care industry has witnessed many independent and often competing efforts to address mitigation and preparedness for emergencies. Clinicians, health care administrators, engineers, safety and security personnel, and others have each developed relatively independent efforts to improve emergency response. A broader conceptual approach through the development of a health care emergency management profession should be considered to integrate these various critical initiatives. When based on long-standing emergency management principles and practices, health care emergency management provides standardized, widely accepted management principles, application concepts, and terminology. This approach could also promote health care integration into the larger community emergency response system. The case for a formally defined health care emergency management profession is presented with discussion points outlining the advantages of this approach.




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Developing the science of health care emergency preparedness and response.
Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness, June 1, 2009; 3(2 Suppl): S2 - S3.
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