Acknowledgments

We thank Jonathan M. Links, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Trish M. Perl, M.D., M.Sc., Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, for their valuable advice on this document. We also thank Christine O. Salamacha and Margaret A. Harlow of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and Otto Guedelhoefer and Patricia Peer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for their assistance with the preparation of the document.

This document was developed by the Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-02-0018 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. The content of this document is intended to provide guidance for hospital disaster drill evaluation and should not be construed as representing standards of care or recommendations on how to respond to specific types of disasters. No statement in this document should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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