Developing indicators and triggers can help healthcare organizations plan for disasters, according to an Institute of Medicine report. The IOM’s Committee on Crisis Standards of Care wrote “Crisis ...

Disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, the earthquake in Haiti, and the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, have served as vivid reminders of the challenge of providing health care when demand ...

An ad-hoc committee will develop a set of indicators around equity in educational outcomes and relevant inputs for pre-K through the transition to post-secondary education. To develop the indicators, ...

Specifically, experts discussed developing indicators to measure progress other than Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The shortfalls of measuring a country’s headway using GDP is an issue of rising ...