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Recommendations for a National Mass Patient and Evacuee Movement, Regulating, and Tracking System

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These recommendations are offered to assist in development of a system that could be used during a mass casualty or evacuation event to locate, track, and regulate patients and evacuees. The recommendations can provide decision support to persons and organizations responsible for patient and evacuee movement, health care and transportation resource allocation, and incident management.

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Prepared by:
Abt Associates

Investigators:
Tom Rich, Project Director
Paul Biddinger, Co-Principal Investigator
Richard Zane, Co-Principal Investigator
Andrea Hassol
Lucy Savitz
Margarita Warren

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Development of Recommendations for a National Mass Patient and Evacuee Movement, Regulating, and Tracking System was funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. The authors would like to acknowledge the efforts of the Department of Defense (DoD) and the contributions of DoD project lead Captain F. Christy Music, We also want to acknowledge the contributions of the members of the Project Steering Committee, who are identified in the appendix of this report.

This project was awarded to Abt Associates Inc. under Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Contract No. 290-00-0003, Task Order #12. Opinions or points of view expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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AHRQ Publication No. AHRQ-09-0039-EF
Current as of February 2009

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Recommendations for a National Mass Patient and Evacuee Movement, Regulating, and Tracking System

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