title: What hospitals should do to prepare for an influenza pandemic.
abstract: This article offers recommendations on what hospitals should do to prepare for an influenza pandemic and proposes specific actions and priorities for the purpose of making the discussion of hospital pandemic preparedness issues more operationally useful.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biosecurity of UPMC, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA. etoner@upmc-biosecurity.org
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Toner
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Waldhorn
mesh_terms: D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States