Pandemic Influenza Plan - Questar III

Section 7: Antiviral Medication Procurement, Distribution, and Use
2. Prioritization
Interpandemic and Pandemic Alert Periods
State Health Department:
• Develop state specific guidelines for prioritization of the use of antivirals
based on the national guidelines in conjunction with LHDs, health care
partners, other state agencies, community groups, and others.
• Establish and convene a prioritization committee.
• Identify, define, and quantify priority groups for antiviral use.
• Communicate with the media, LHDs, and health care partners about
prioritization decisions.
• Develop relationships and agreements with groups within the state to
facilitate antiviral distribution and use. Examples of such groups include
tribal authorities and religious groups.
• Identify and quantify the sites that would be needed to administer antiviral
drugs (for example hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, alternative care
facilities, etc.).
• Plan for the use of standing orders to administer antivirals.
• Plan for mass distribution of antivirals to priority groups if needed.
Local Health Departments:
• Identify, define, and quantify priority groups in local jurisdictions that are
prioritized for antiviral use.
• Communicate with the media and health care partners about prioritization
decisions.
• Plan for mass administration of antivirals to priority groups if needed.
Healthcare Partners:
• Identify, define, and quantify priority groups for antiviral use.
• Plan for administration of antivirals to priority groups within health care
facilities and practices.
Pandemic Period
State Health Department:
• Review modifications, if any, to interim recommendations on antiviral use
in selected groups.
• Activate plans for distributing and administering antivirals to persons in
priority groups.
• Accelerate training on appropriate use of antiviral drugs among public
health staff and health care partners.
• Distribute and deliver stockpiled supplies of antiviral, as appropriate to
delivery sites that will administer them to priority groups.
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