Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Maryland: Improving Readiness Through a Tabletop Exercise

Taylor, Jean Lin; Roup, Brenda J.; Blythe, David; Reed, Greg; Tate, Tiffany; Moore, Kristine A.

doi:10.1089/bsp.2005.3.61

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“…The simplest form is when a few individuals literally sit around a table and discuss the sequence of their responses to events of a hypothetical disaster based on a written scenario. More complex variations of exercises can be from the hospital [43] or regional level (which includes first responders, communication systems, and local agencies) [44,45] to national or multinational disaster rehearsals [46,47]. Common to all of these exercises are a careful pre-event plan, some degree of reality simulation, anticipation of relevant participants' responses (often a group of observers), and most importantly, a post hoc analysis of how the response was executed.…”

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Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources

Roccaforte

Cushman

2007

Anesthesiology Clinics

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Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources

Roccaforte

Cushman

2007

Anesthesiology Clinics

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“…These issue areas were chosen because they intersect with all of the 11 key areas of the HHS plan (as displayed in Figure 1.2) and because they represent issues that previous research has identified as significant challenges for health departments, particularly at the local level (Lurie et al, 2004;Taylor et al, 2005). …”

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Tabletop Exercise for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Local Public Health Agencies

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Aledort

Lurie³

2006

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“…At a university level, these exercises allow the organization to assess and improve their performance, while demonstrating community resolve to prepare for major incidents. The major limitations of traditional tabletop exercises include difficulty demonstrating the results of policy decisions that are made during the exercise, and the assuming perfect communication among decision makers throughout the catastrophic pandemic event [19].…”

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“…Rutherford [16] presented a framework about using table-top exercises for disaster management. Taylor et al [19] presented a table-top exercise for the pandemic preparedness of Maryland and outlined the benefits of such exercises for the policy makers' education and readiness to potential effects of pandemic influenza in the community. More recently, Beaton et al [3] presented the findings from a table-top exercise designed to improve pandemic preparedness at one of the largest universities in the United States.…”

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A New Method of Exercising Pandemic Preparedness Through an Interactive Simulation and Visualization

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As seen in the spring 2009 A/H1N1 influenza outbreak, influenza pandemics can have profound social, legal and economic effects. This experience has also made the importance of public health preparedness exercises more evident. Universities face unique challenges with respect to pandemic preparedness due to their dense student populations, location within the larger community and frequent student/faculty international travel. Depending on the social structure of the community, different mitigation strategies should be applied for decreasing the severity and transmissibility of the disease. To this end, Arizona State University has developed a simulation model and tabletop exercise that facilitates decision-maker interactions around emergency-response scenarios. This simulation gives policy makers the ability to see the real-time impact of their decisions. Therefore, tabletop exercises with computer simulations are developed to practice these decisions, which can possibly give opportunities for practicing better policy implementations. This paper introduces a new method of designing and performing table-top exercises for pandemic influenza via state-of-the-art technologies including system visualization and group decision making with a supporting simulation model. The presented exercise methodology can increase readiness for a pandemic through the support of computer and information technologies and the survey results that we include in this paper certainly support this result. The video scenarios and the computer simulation model make the exercise appear very compelling and real, which makes this presented method of exercising different than the other table-top exercises in the literature. Finally, designing a pandemic preparedness exercise with supporting technologies can help identifying the communication gaps between responsible authorities and advance the table-top exercising methodology.

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Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Maryland: Improving Readiness Through a Tabletop Exercise

Cited by 23 publications

References 6 publications

Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources

Disaster Preparedness, Triage, and Surge Capacity for Hospital Definitive Care Areas: Optimizing Outcomes when Demands Exceed Resources

Tabletop Exercise for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness in Local Public Health Agencies

A New Method of Exercising Pandemic Preparedness Through an Interactive Simulation and Visualization

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