Exercise Paton: A simulation exercise to test New South Wales emergency departments’ response to pandemic influenza
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2007.31.34Keywords:
pandemic influenza, public health measures, emergency departmentAbstract
Exercise Paton was a New South Wales-wide simulation exercise conducted on 30 November 2006, to test the response of New South Wales emergency departments (EDs), multi-purpose services (MPSs), and public health units to the presentation of single cases of pandemic influenza during the early stages of a pandemic. The exercise followed the release of the New South Wales policy document to guide New South Wales hospitals' response to an influenza pandemic, titled Hospital Response to Pandemic Influenza, Part 1: Emergency Department Response. The exercise was named after Dr Robert Paton, the New South Wales Director-General of Public Health during the 'Spanish influenza' pandemic of 1918–1919.
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NSW Department of Health. Hospital Response to Pandemic Influenza: Part 1 Emergency Department Response. NSW Department of Health: Sydney; June 2007. Available from: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/policies/pd/2007/pdf/PD2007_048.pdf
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic influenza. Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing; Canberra; 2006. Available from: http://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/ohp-pandemic-ahmppi.htm/$file/AHMPPI.pdf
NSW Department of Health.Exercise Paton Evaluation Report. NSW Department of Health: Sydney; June 2007.
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