Recommended Infrastructure Standards for Mass Antibiotic Dispensing

Christopher Nelson ; Edward W. Chan ; Anita Chandra ; Paul Sorensen ; Henry H. Willis ; Katherine Comanor ; Hayoung Park ; Karen A. Ricci ; Leah B. Caldarone ; Molly Shea ; et al.

RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation

关键词: Emergency Services and Response;    Public Health Preparedness;    Public Safety;    Emergency Preparedness;    Terrorism and Homeland Security;    Health and Health Care;   

RP-ID  :  TR-553-DHHS

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: RAND Corporation Published Research

【 摘 要 】

Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $7 billion to enhance state and local preparedness for bioterrorism attacks, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other large-scale public health emergencies. A central component of this effort involves the ability to dispense antibiotics and other life-saving medical countermeasures to large populations under short timelines. This report presents recommended standards for points of dispensing (or PODs), locations where the public would receive life-saving antibiotics or other medical countermeasures during a large-scale public health emergency. The standards, which are designed to apply to widely divergent jurisdictions, rely on expert panel evaluations, current POD planning practices, and computer-modeled scenarios.