TY - JOUR
T1 - User-managed inventory
T2 - An approachto forward-deployment of urgently needed medical countermeasures for mass-casualty and terrorism incidents
AU - Coleman, C. Norman
AU - Hrdina, Chad
AU - Casagrande, Rocco
AU - Cliffer, Kenneth D.
AU - Mansoura, Monique K.
AU - Nystrom, Scott
AU - Hatchett, Richard
AU - Caro, J. Jaime
AU - Knebel, Ann R.
AU - Wallace, Katherine S.
AU - Adams, Steven A.
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - The user-managed inventory (UMI) is an emerging idea for enhancing the current distribution and maintenance system for emergency medical countermeasures (MCMs). It increases current capabilities for the dispensing and distribution ofMCMsand enhances local/regional preparedness and resilience. In the UMI, critical MCMs, especially those in routine medical use ("dual utility") and those that must be administered soon after an incident before outside supplies can arrive, are stored at multiple medical facilities (including medical supply or distribution networks) across the United States. The medical facilities store a sufficient cache to meet part of the surge needs but not so much that the resources expire before they would be used in the normal course of business. In an emergency, these extra supplies can be used locally to treat casualties, including evacuees from incidents in other localities. This system, which is at the interface of local/regional and federal response, provides response capacity before the arrival of supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and thus enhances the local/regional medical responders' ability to provide life-saving MCMsthat otherwise would be delayed. The UMI can be more cost-effective than stockpiling by avoiding costs due to drug expiration, disposal of expired stockpiled supplies, and repurchase for replacement.
AB - The user-managed inventory (UMI) is an emerging idea for enhancing the current distribution and maintenance system for emergency medical countermeasures (MCMs). It increases current capabilities for the dispensing and distribution ofMCMsand enhances local/regional preparedness and resilience. In the UMI, critical MCMs, especially those in routine medical use ("dual utility") and those that must be administered soon after an incident before outside supplies can arrive, are stored at multiple medical facilities (including medical supply or distribution networks) across the United States. The medical facilities store a sufficient cache to meet part of the surge needs but not so much that the resources expire before they would be used in the normal course of business. In an emergency, these extra supplies can be used locally to treat casualties, including evacuees from incidents in other localities. This system, which is at the interface of local/regional and federal response, provides response capacity before the arrival of supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and thus enhances the local/regional medical responders' ability to provide life-saving MCMsthat otherwise would be delayed. The UMI can be more cost-effective than stockpiling by avoiding costs due to drug expiration, disposal of expired stockpiled supplies, and repurchase for replacement.
KW - Medical countermeasures
KW - Nuclear
KW - User-managed inventory
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U2 - 10.1001/dmp.2012.46a
DO - 10.1001/dmp.2012.46a
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23241473
AN - SCOPUS:84872013570
SN - 1935-7893
VL - 6
SP - 408
EP - 414
JO - Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
JF - Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
IS - 4
ER -