Emergency Management for Healthcare

Index

Accreditation, 1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 37, 46, 72

After action report and improvement plan (AAR/IP), 24

“All-hazards” approach, 1, 39

Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), 61

Applied research, 5

Approval process, 27–28

Attitudes, 52–54

Authority, 12–13, 24–25

Balanced emergency patient distribution, 67–68

Business continuity, 53

Business cycle, 105

Case-specific approach, 16, 21

Clinical codes, 15

Clinical roles, 69–70

Command and control model, 10, 38–40

Communications, 60–62

Communications failures, 56

Coordinated planning, 64

Coordination, lack of, 54–56

Credentialing, 57–58

Debriefing, 24

Decanting, 26, 68

Decontamination area, 23

Disaster Plan. See Emergency Plan

Documentation, 21–22, 24

Due diligence, 4, 38, 57

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