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Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Toolkit
FEATURED RESOURCEChecklist of Essential Pediatric Domains and Considerations for Every Hospital’s Disaster Preparedness PoliciesThis checklist is an update to the original 2014 checklist and seeks to expand its utility. It is intended as a tool …
FEATURED RESOURCEChecklist of Essential Pediatric Domains and Considerations for Every Hospital’s Disaster Preparedness PoliciesThis checklist …
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Pediatric Readiness
Children have unique physiological, emotional, and developmental characteristics that require specialized emergency care. Pediatric Readiness is ensuring that every EMS agency and emergency department has the pediatric-specific champions, competencies, policies, equipment, and other resources needed …
Children have unique physiological, emotional, and developmental characteristics that require specialized emergency care. Pediatric Readiness …
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Patient- and Family-Centered Care: Partnerships for Quality and Safety (IPFCC & AHA)
This video and discussion guide were developed by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care (IPFCC) in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA). While the information is hospital-centric, the concepts could be applied to …
This video and discussion guide were developed by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care …
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Getting Started, Staying Involved: An EMSC Toolkit for Family Representatives
This Toolkit was created to assist parents and caregivers in their efforts to support the EMSC Program at the national and state levels. The guide contains information about the history of the EMS system. It …
This Toolkit was created to assist parents and caregivers in their efforts to support the …
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The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Strategies to Put Patients at the Center of Primary Care (AHRQ)
This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the needs, preferences and goals of patients and families.
This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the …
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Disaster Preparedness
The EIIC Disaster Domain seeks to support EMSC grantees and stakeholders to better prepare for disasters in a way that takes the specific needs of children into consideration. We offer a variety of resources and …
The EIIC Disaster Domain seeks to support EMSC grantees and stakeholders to better prepare for …
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Guidelines and General Resources
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Compassionate Options for Pediatric EMS (COPE)
Resources developed to assist EMS providers with an approach to better understand how to provide “next steps" including self-care when a child dies due to severe trauma or illness in the prehospital environment.
Resources developed to assist EMS providers with an approach to better understand how to provide …
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Bereavement Support Resources for Families and Professionals
Presented February 20, 2019 Fatality Review personnel, caregivers, and workers dealing with bereaved families often express their need to know more about how to communicate with and provide services for families following an infant or …
Presented February 20, 2019 Fatality Review personnel, caregivers, and workers dealing with bereaved families often …
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EMS Week & EMSC Day
In 1974, President Gerald Ford authorized EMS Week to celebrate EMS practitioners and the important work they do in our nation's communities. This week brings together local communities and medical personnel to honor the dedication …
In 1974, President Gerald Ford authorized EMS Week to celebrate EMS practitioners and the important …
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QI Science
The EIIC is focused on improving outcomes for children in emergency situations by using improvement science as the basis for our efforts to address known gaps in the US healthcare system. Our aim is to …
The EIIC is focused on improving outcomes for children in emergency situations by using improvement …
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Communication Tools
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Disaster Preparedness
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Bereavement Support for Families and Professionals
Presented February 20, 2019 Fatality Review personnel, caregivers, and workers dealing with bereaved families often express their need to know more about how to communicate with and provide services for families following an infant or …
Presented February 20, 2019 Fatality Review personnel, caregivers, and workers dealing with bereaved families often …
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Family Reunification Following Disasters: A Planning Tool for Health Care Facilities
Created by the AAP Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council Subcommittee on Reunification Planning in collaboration with the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Disaster Medicine. This planning tool focuses on providing guidance to hospitals that will help …
Created by the AAP Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council Subcommittee on Reunification Planning in collaboration with …
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Family Reunification Following Disasters: A Planning Tool for Health Care Facilities
Created by the AAP Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council Subcommittee on Reunification Planning in collaboration with the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Disaster Medicine. This planning tool focuses on providing guidance to hospitals that will help …
Created by the AAP Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council Subcommittee on Reunification Planning in collaboration with …
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A Novel Image-based Tool to Reunite Children With Their Families After Disasters
SAEM Manuscript, published November 2012. Objectives: Reuniting children with their families after a disaster poses unique challenges. The objective was to pilot test the ability of a novel image-based tool to assist a parent in …
SAEM Manuscript, published November 2012. Objectives: Reuniting children with their families after a disaster poses …
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Family-Centered Care Self-Assessment Tool (Family Voices)
From Family Voices
From Family Voices
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Working With Patient and Families as Advisors: Implementation Handbook (AHRQ)
From AHRQ, The goal of the Working With Patients and Families as Advisors strategy is to bring the perspectives of patients and families directly into the planning, delivery, and evaluation of care. The tools that …
From AHRQ, The goal of the Working With Patients and Families as Advisors strategy is …