tailieunhanh - Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program: Phase I Report

When our committee began in the fall of 2000 to evaluate the potential of the Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) program to enhance local ability to respond to the consequences of weapons of mass destruction terrorism, I could not have imagined the tragedies that would befall us as committee members and as a society. Many of us on the committee have had personal losses from the assault on the World Trade Center and on our sense of physical and psychological safety. We are all deeply saddened by the death of Raymond Downey a longtime fire department veteran and expert in urban search and rescue who. | Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program Phase I Report Frederick J. Manning Lewis Goldfrank Editors National Academy Press Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program Phase I Report Committee on Evaluation of the Metropolitan Medical Response Program Board on Health Sciences Policy INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE Frederick J. Manning and Lewis Goldfrank Editors NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington . NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS 2101 Constitution Avenue NW Washington DC 20418 NOTICE The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for this report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance. Support for this project was provided by the Office of Emergency Preparedness . Department of Health and Human Services. This support does not constitute endorsement of the views expressed in the report. International Standard Book Number 0-309-07647-1 Additional copies of this report are available for sale from the National Academy Press 2101 Constitution Avenue NW Box 285 Washington DC 20055. Call 800 624-6242 or 202 334-3313 in the Washington metropolitan area or visit the NAP s on-line bookstore at . The full text of the report is available on-line at readingroom. For more information about the Institute of Medicine visit the IOM home page at . Copyright 2001 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. The serpent has been a symbol of long life healing and knowledge among almost all cultures and religions since the beginning of recorded history. The serpent adopted as a logotype by the Institute of Medicine is a relief carving from ancient Greece now held by .