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CDC report (attached) details hospital preparedness for terrorism-related conditions January 5, 2007-A new report concerning the preparedness of US hospitals for terrorism-related conditions is now available online. "Training for Terrorism-Related Conditions in Hospitals: United States, 2003-2004," is based on data from the annual National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Key findings include: * Teaching hospitals were better trained than other hospitals for bioterrorism, and Joint Commission-accredited hospitals had prepared more of their physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and lab staff for such emergencies. * Eighty-eight percent of hospitals surveyed in 2003 and 2004 said their nurses had been trained in how to recognize and treat patients exposed to at least one of seven pathogens including smallpox, anthrax, plague, botulism, tularemia, viral encephalitis and hemorrhagic fever, and chemical or radiological attacks. * Eighty-six percent of the clinical staff in hospitals with 24-hour emergency departments or outpatient clinics were trained to recognize and treat smallpox, and 82 percent were trained to recognize and treat anthrax infection. The <http://www.fmlink.com/general/redirect.cgi?source=Surveys&dest=http://www.c dc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad380.pdf> report (.pdf file) is available from the <http://www.fmlink.com/general/redirect.cgi?source=Surveys&dest=http://www.c dc.gov/nchs/> NCHS Web site. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
