Survey: Physicians feel unprepared for bioterrorism
Emergency Management Alert, September 17, 2003
A recently released survey found that most United States physicians say they are willing to treat victims of a bioterrorist attack, but they still feel unprepared for such a situation, Agence France-Presse reports.
Four out of five physicians say they would be willing to care for patients after an unknown outbreak, but only one of five felt well prepared for the role, according to a University of Chicago survey of 1,000 physicians taken four months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The physicians' initial willingness dropped when asked about their personal safety, with 40% saying they would treat a patient where there was a risk of contracting a deadly illness, and only 33% were willing to care for a patient if the virus was smallpox and the physicians had not first been vaccinated.
The survey was published in the September 9, 2003, issue of Health Affairs.
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