Hospital Surge Evaluation Tool

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, US Department of Health and Human Services (ASPR)

Hurricane

Earthquake

Flood

Nuclear detonation

Disease outbreak (natural)

Bioterrorism

ACCESS INFORMATION

DATA ACCESS

http://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/hpp/surge/Pages/default.aspx/

ACCESS TYPE

Open access

DATA FORMAT

software

OVERVIEW

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION

The Hospital Surge Evaluation Tool is a planning and exercise tool designed to help individual hospitals evaluate their level of preparedness for mass casualty incidents through peer assessment. The tool guides users in planning and executing an exercise for the healthcare response to a mass casualty incident. The data produced by the tool are not intended to characterize real-world incidents, but are designed to support decision-making about a hospital's surge preparedness. The tool has been used by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) to respond to requests for information regarding healthcare system surge planning. Planning and exercise data that can be generated by the tool's computational models include the number of patients expected over time by triage category. Additional applications provided in the tool assist in managing the flow and execution of the exercise itself.

BROAD DATA CATEGORIES

Logistics

SPECIFIC DATA ELEMENTS

Hurricane
Earthquake
Flood
Nuclear detonation
Disease outbreak (natural)
Bioterrorism