The following Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) website may be of interest when planning, designing, coducting and evaluating hospital exercise:  http://www.ahrq.gov/prep/hospex.htm 

It has links to three resource documents:

• Hospital Preparedness Exercises Atlas of Resources and Tools - 179 pages

o    The Hospital Preparedness Exercises Atlas of Resources and Tools describes nearly 200 resources and tools that are available to help exercise coordinators meet Federal funding requirements and accreditation standards throughout the exercise cycle. Each entry provides descriptive and citation information for the resource or tool.

• Hospital Preparedness Exercises Guidebook - 104 pages

o    The Hospital Preparedness Exercises Guidebook complements the Atlas, serving as a reference for planning, conducting, and evaluating exercises and for how to comply with accreditation standards and Federal guidelines.

• Hospital Preparedness Exercises Pocket Guide - 42 pages
• The Hospital Preparedness Exercises Pocket Guide serves as a quick reference, summarizing the Guidebook.

Other AHRQ Hospital Planning resource available at http://www.ahrq.gov/prep/ are:

• Hospital Assessment and Rocovery Guide
• Hospital Evacuation Decision Guide
• Hospital Surge Model