New AHRQ Guides Offer Hospitals Advice on Emergency Evacuati

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New AHRQ Guides Offer Hospitals Advice on Emergency Evacuation, Assessment and Recovery
Two new guides are now available to help hospital planners and administrators make important decisions about how to protect patients and health care workers and assess the physical components of a hospital when a natural or manmade disaster, terrorist attack, or other catastrophic event threatens the soundness of a facility. Published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the guides examine how hospital personnel have coped under emergency situations in the past to better understand what factors should be considered when making evacuation, shelter-in-place, and reoccupation decisions
http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2010/hospguidespr.htm