title: Hospital preparedness for emergency response: United States, 2008.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This report is a summary of hospital preparedness for responding to public health emergencies, including mass casualties and epidemics of naturally occurring diseases such as influenza.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data are from an emergency response preparedness supplement to the 2008 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, which uses a national probability sample of nonfederal general and short-stay hospitals in the United States. Sample data were weighted to produce national estimates.
authors.affiliation: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA.
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Niska
authors.forename: Iris M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Shimizu
mesh_terms: D004189:Disaster Planning; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004630:Emergencies; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D004638:Emergency Treatment / Q000592:standards*; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D054527:Mass Casualty Incidents; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D059039:Standard of Care; D014481:United States