Staffing

Model helps hospitals, health systems better respond to potential bioterrorism

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 23rd, 2003

On June 26, 2003, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the availability of a new computer model to help hospitals and health systems plan antibiotic dispensing and vaccination campaigns to respond to bioterrorism or large-scale natural disease outbreaks.

Funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, this new resource is the first computerized staffing model in the U.S. that can be downloaded as a spreadsheet and used to calculate the specific needs of local healthcare systems based on the number of staff they have and the number of patients they would need to treat quickly in a bioterrorism event.

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2003-07-23)

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