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Principal Investigator: Melissa McCarthy (JHO-CEPAR)

Investigators:

• Gabor Kelen (JHO-CEPAR)
• James Scheulen (JHO-CEPAR)
• Gary Green (JHO-CEPAR)
• Christian Latimer (JHU-APL)
• John Pournour (CBRTA)
• Michael Moskal (UB-CUBRC)
• Michael Bruneau (UB-CUBRC)

Project Objectives:

To measure emergency medical response capabilities (MRC) for a catastrophic event at the local, regional and national level

• Define medical response capabilities (MRC)
• Develop a conceptual framework for MRC
• Develop MRC instruments
• Evaluate validity of MRC instruments

Project Summary & Planned Activities:

• The MRC Instruments would be self-rated and performance based
• Generic and incident specific scales
• Quantitative and objective
• Reliable and valid

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