Allocation of Scarce Resources During Mass Casualty Events | Effective Health Care Program

Allocation of Scarce Resources During Mass Casualty Events | Effective Health Care Program

Rapid Review Products Now Available

Resource Allocation and Pandemic Response: An Evidence Synthesis To Inform Decision Making
(Rapid Review Product, released on October 5, 2020)

The healthcare field is struggling with urgent questions about how to respond to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Health systems, clinicians, policymakers, and the general public want evidence to inform critical decisions. In this period of clinical uncertainty, the AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program has rapidly summarized the current available evidence in response to urgent questions about promising options to control the COVID-19 pandemic.

The EPC Program identified a 2012 evidence report that could help the healthcare field care for patients during this global pandemic. Because this review, "Allocation of Scarce Resources in a Mass Casualty Event," was developed before the COVID-19 pandemic, the EPC Program has commissioned a targeted update as a rapid evidence product.

No-Touch Modalities for Disinfecting Patient Rooms in Acute Care Settings: A Rapid Review
(Rapid Review Product, released on October 2, 2020)

The purpose of the review it to rapidly identify evidence assessing the effect of no-touch modalities for disinfecting acute care hospital rooms on contamination and infection rates.