Table 2.

Frequency and percentage of New England hospitals and emergency departments reporting no access to specialists for consultation in-person, via telephone, or via telehealth within first 4 hours of large-scale, no-notice emergency event, overall and by state.

Disaster response capability	Total (n=164), n (%)	Connecticut (n=33), n (%)	Massachusetts (n=57), n (%)	Maine (n=30), n (%)	New Hampshire (n=24), n (%)	Rhode Island (n=8), n (%)	Vermont (n=12), n (%)	P value
Toxicology	30 (18)	4 (12)	11 (19)	3 (10)	7 (29)	3 (38)	2 (17)	.27
Radiation or nuclear medicine	25 (15)	3 (9)	8 (14)	7 (23)	4 (17)	2 (25)	1 (8)	.61
Trauma	20 (12)	2 (6)	11 (19)	3 (10)	1 (4)	2 (25)	1 (8)	.19
Burn	40 (24)	3 (9)	20 (35)	8 (27)	5 (21)	2 (25)	2 (17)	.08
Infectious disease	7 (4)	1 (3)	1 (2)	4 (13)	1 (4)	0 (0)	0 (0)	.26
Critical care	6 (4)	1 (3)	2 (4)	3 (10)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	.59
No access to any specialist	2 (1)	1 (3)	0 (0)	1 (3)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	.52