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Emergency Physician Disaster Deployment: Issues to Consider and a Model Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2017

Christopher A. Kahn ,
Kristi L. Koenig  and
Carl H. Schultz
Christopher A. Kahn*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CaliforniaUSA Center for Disaster Medical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CaliforniaUSA
Kristi L. Koenig
Affiliation:
Center for Disaster Medical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CaliforniaUSA
Carl H. Schultz
Affiliation:
Center for Disaster Medical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CaliforniaUSA
*
Correspondence: Christopher Kahn, MD, MPH Department of Emergency Medicine University of California, San Diego 200 W. Arbor Drive, MC 8676 San Diego, California 92103 USA E-mail: ckahn@ucsd.edu
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Abstract

Disaster responders are frequently emergency physicians (EPs). Effective response is enhanced by the strong support of home institutions and clear policies for backfill of regular duties. A group of disaster medicine responders and researchers worked with an academic department of emergency medicine to create a policy that addresses concerns of deploying physicians, colleagues remaining at the home institution, and administrators. This article describes the process and content of this policy development work.

KahnCA, KoenigKL, SchultzCH. Emergency Physician Disaster Deployment: Issues to Consider and a Model Policy. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2017;32(4):462–464.

Keywords

disaster medicinedisasterspolicy makingrescue work
Type
Special Reports
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , August 2017 , pp. 462 - 464
Copyright
© World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2017 

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Footnotes

Conflicts of interest: none

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