Resources

In-Focus:  Pandemic Flu

LITERATURE

• Pandemic Influenza Prepardness and Response Guidance for Healthcare Workers and Healthcare Employers Occupational Safety and Health Association 2007
• Washington state officials watch for flu pandemic, McClatchy Newspapers, August 15, 2005
• A Killer Flu? A report from Trust for America's Health, June 2005
• The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready?
• The John R. La Montagne Memorial Symposium on Pandemic Influenza Research April 2005
• Existing antivirals are effective against influenza viruses with genes from the 1918 pandemic virus October 15, 2002
  National Academy of Sciences

REPORTS

• CDC Releases Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance: Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation in the United States - Early, Targeted, Layered use of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions   February 2007
• A Potential Influenza Pandemic: Possible Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Issues December 8, 2005
  Congressional Budget Office Letter and Report
• Economic Cost to Hospitals from an Avian Flu Pandemic Likely to Be Huge, SLU Professor Says November 17, 2005
  Saint Louis University
• GAO Report: Influenza vaccine: shortages in 2004-05 season underscore need for better preparation September 2005.  Highlights of the report.

RESOURCES

• Community Pan-Flu Preparedness: A Checklist of Key Legal Issues for Healthcare Providers -  2008 - American Health Lawyers Association
• Planning Today for a Pandemic Tomorrow  - (NJHA Module Series)
  
  • Supplies, Logistics, Support Services Planning and Assessment Tool: A Healthcare Guide for Pandemic Flu Planning  - January 2008  - This tool will assist hospitals in developing and adopting new policies that will be required to protect employees, patients and the hospital staff itself. The planning and assessment tool identifies critical elements within each module related to hospital operations during an emergency situation. In addition, the tool provides a variety of sample policies and procedures that facilities may elect to use in their planning process.
  • Communications Planning & Assessment Tool: A Healthcare Guide for Pandemic Flu Planning - March 2008 -  This tool will assist hospitals in developing and adopting new policies that will be required to protect employees, patients and the hospital itself. The planning and assessment tool identifies critical elements within each module related to hospital operations during an emergency situation. In addition, the tool provides a variety of sample policies and procedures that facilities may elect to use in their planning process.
  • Human Resources Planning & Assessment Tool: A Healthcare Guide for Pandemic Flu Planning  - April 2008
    This tool will assist hospitals in developing and adopting new policies that will be required to protect employees, patients and the hospital itself. The planning and assessment tool identifies critical elements within each module related to hospital operations during an emergency situation. In addition, the tool provides a variety of sample policies and procedures that facilities may elect to use in their planning process.
  • Finance Planning & Assessment Tool: A Healthcare Guide for Pandemic Flu Planning  - April 2008
    This tool will assist hospitals in developing and adopting new policies that will be required to protect employees, patients and the hospital itself. The planning and assessment tool identifies critical elements within each module related to hospital operations during an emergency situation. In addition, the tool provides a variety of sample policies and procedures that facilities may elect to use in their planning process.

• HHS Hospital Planning Checklists June 4, 2007
  
• An AABB Interorganizational Task Force on Pandemic Influenza and the Blood Supply Pandemic Influenza Planning Efforts to Ensure a Safe, Available Blood Supply October 3, 2006
  
• An AABB Interorganizational Task Force on Pandemic Influenza and the Blood Supply Pandemic Influenza Planning Issues Outline October 3, 2006
  
• An AABB Interorganizational Task Force on Pandemic Influenza and the Blood Supply Pandemic Influenza Planning Blood Collection Facility and Transfusion Service Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist October 3, 2006
• HHS & CDC: Home Health Care Services Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist  March 3, 2006
• CDC Flu Information 
• Influenza A/H2N2 - CDC information page
• JCAHO: Surge Hospitals: Providing Safe Care in Emergencies December 2005
• CDC: State and Local Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist December 2, 2005
• Are We Ready for a Killer Flu? October 13, 2005
  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides an Interactive Map that forecasts avian flu activity in the U.S.
• Prevention and Control of Influenza: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report, July 13, 2005

GOVERNMENT PLAN

• CDC Announces Change in Recommendations for use of Antivirals; Clinicians Should Not Prescribe Two Common Antivirals January 14, 2006
• HHS Announces $100 Million to Accelerate State and Local Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Efforts, 1/12/2006
• HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan November 2, 2005
• National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza November 1, 2005 
• HHS Pandemic Influenza Response and Preparedness Plan
• PandemicFlu.Gov

AVIAN FLU

• CDC's COCA call on Avian Influenza, February 2006
• CDC: Avian Influenza
• CDC: Key Facts About Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) and Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus December 6, 2005
• CDC: Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Presentation on Avian Influenza December 6, 2005
• Case Example: Yolo County Health Department Emergency Preparedness and Response: Avian Flu Outbreak and Vaccination Drill
• HHS Buys Vaccine and Antivirals in Preparation for a Potential Influenza Pandemic  September 15, 2005
• NIH: Researchers Model Avian Flu Outbreak, Impact of Interventions August 3, 2005
• NIAID Initiates Trial of Experimental Avian Flu Vaccine March 23, 2005
• CDC: Interim Recommendations for Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities Caring for Patients with Known or Suspected Avian Influenza
• CDC Webcast: Symposium on Avian Influenza for State Health Departments and Poultry Industry: Archived Transcript and Presentations

PLANNING TOOLS

• Bioterrorism and Epidemic Outbreak Response Model (BERM)
• Flu Aid 2.0 - Free software to aid state and local public health officials plan, prepare and practice for the next influenza pandemic.
• FluSurge - Free spreadsheet-based model which provides hospital administrators and public health officials estimates of the surge in demand for hospital-based services during the next influenza pandemic.
• Pandemic Influenza Tabletop Exercise Package