TY - JOUR
T1 - Tools and Checklists Used for the Evaluation of Hospital Disaster Preparedness
T2 - A Systematic Review
AU - Nekoie-Moghadam, Mahmood
AU - Kurland, Lisa
AU - Moosazadeh, Mahmood
AU - Ingrassia, Pier Luigi
AU - Della Corte, Francesco
AU - Djalali, Ahmadreza
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2016.
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - Hospitals need to be fully operative during disasters. It is therefore essential to be able to evaluate hospital preparedness. However, there is no consensus of a standardized, comprehensive and reliable tool with which to measure hospital preparedness. The aim of the current study was to perform a systematic review of evaluation tools for hospital disaster preparedness. A systematic review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The key words crisis, disaster, disaster medicine, emergency, mass casualty, hospital preparedness, hospital readiness, hospital assessment, hospital evaluation, hospital appraisal, planning, checklist, and medical facility were used in combination with the Boolean operators OR and AND. PubMed (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD), ISI Web of Science (Thomson Reuters, New York, NY), and Scopus (Elsevier, New York, NY) were searched. A total of 51,809 publications were screened. The following themes were required for relevance: logistics, planning, human resources, triage, communication, command and control, structural and nonstructural preparedness, training, evacuation, recovery after disaster, coordination, transportation, surge capacity, and safety. The results from 15 publications are presented. Fifteen articles fulfilled the criteria of relevance and considered at least 1 of the 14 predetermined themes. None of the evaluated checklists and tools included all dimensions required for an appropriate hospital preparedness evaluation. The results of the current systematic review could be used as a basis for designing an evaluation tool for hospital disaster preparedness. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;page 1 of 8).
AB - Hospitals need to be fully operative during disasters. It is therefore essential to be able to evaluate hospital preparedness. However, there is no consensus of a standardized, comprehensive and reliable tool with which to measure hospital preparedness. The aim of the current study was to perform a systematic review of evaluation tools for hospital disaster preparedness. A systematic review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The key words crisis, disaster, disaster medicine, emergency, mass casualty, hospital preparedness, hospital readiness, hospital assessment, hospital evaluation, hospital appraisal, planning, checklist, and medical facility were used in combination with the Boolean operators OR and AND. PubMed (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD), ISI Web of Science (Thomson Reuters, New York, NY), and Scopus (Elsevier, New York, NY) were searched. A total of 51,809 publications were screened. The following themes were required for relevance: logistics, planning, human resources, triage, communication, command and control, structural and nonstructural preparedness, training, evacuation, recovery after disaster, coordination, transportation, surge capacity, and safety. The results from 15 publications are presented. Fifteen articles fulfilled the criteria of relevance and considered at least 1 of the 14 predetermined themes. None of the evaluated checklists and tools included all dimensions required for an appropriate hospital preparedness evaluation. The results of the current systematic review could be used as a basis for designing an evaluation tool for hospital disaster preparedness. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;page 1 of 8).
KW - disaster
KW - hospital
KW - preparedness
KW - systematic review
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84970006991
U2 - 10.1017/dmp.2016.30
DO - 10.1017/dmp.2016.30
M3 - Review article
SN - 1935-7893
VL - 10
SP - 781
EP - 788
JO - Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
JF - Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
IS - 5
ER -
