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Hospitals as disaster victims: Lessons not learned?
OBJECTIVE: Hospitals are a key component to disaster response but are susceptible to the effects of disasters as well, including infrastructure damage that disrupts patient care. These events offer an opportunity for evaluation and improvement of preparedness and response efforts when hospitals are...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8749465/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036993 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12632 |
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author | Melnychuk, Eric Sallade, Thomas D. Kraus, Chadd K. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Hospitals are a key component to disaster response but are susceptible to the effects of disasters as well, including infrastructure damage that disrupts patient care. These events offer an opportunity for evaluation and improvement of preparedness and response efforts when hospitals are affected directly by a disaster. The objective of this structured review was to evaluate the existing literature on hospitals as disaster victims. METHODS: A structured and scoping review of peer‐reviewed literature, gray literature, and news reports related to hospitals as disaster victims was completed to identify and analyze themes and lessons observed from disasters in which hospitals are victims, to aid in future emergency operations planning and disaster response. RESULTS: The literature search and secondary search of referenes identified 366 records in English. A variety of common barriers to successful disaster response include loss of power, water, heating and ventilation, communications, health information technology, staffing, supplies, safety and security, and structural and non‐structural damage. CONCLUSIONS: There are common weaknesses in disaster preparedness that we can learn from and account for in future planning with the aim of improving resilience in the face of future disasters. |
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spelling | pubmed-87494652022-01-14 Hospitals as disaster victims: Lessons not learned? Melnychuk, Eric Sallade, Thomas D. Kraus, Chadd K. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open Disaster Medicine OBJECTIVE: Hospitals are a key component to disaster response but are susceptible to the effects of disasters as well, including infrastructure damage that disrupts patient care. These events offer an opportunity for evaluation and improvement of preparedness and response efforts when hospitals are affected directly by a disaster. The objective of this structured review was to evaluate the existing literature on hospitals as disaster victims. METHODS: A structured and scoping review of peer‐reviewed literature, gray literature, and news reports related to hospitals as disaster victims was completed to identify and analyze themes and lessons observed from disasters in which hospitals are victims, to aid in future emergency operations planning and disaster response. RESULTS: The literature search and secondary search of referenes identified 366 records in English. A variety of common barriers to successful disaster response include loss of power, water, heating and ventilation, communications, health information technology, staffing, supplies, safety and security, and structural and non‐structural damage. CONCLUSIONS: There are common weaknesses in disaster preparedness that we can learn from and account for in future planning with the aim of improving resilience in the face of future disasters. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8749465/ /pubmed/35036993 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12632 Text en © 2022 The Authors. JACEP Open published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American College of Emergency Physicians https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Disaster Medicine Melnychuk, Eric Sallade, Thomas D. Kraus, Chadd K. Hospitals as disaster victims: Lessons not learned? |
title | Hospitals as disaster victims: Lessons not learned? |
title_full | Hospitals as disaster victims: Lessons not learned? |
title_fullStr | Hospitals as disaster victims: Lessons not learned? |
title_full_unstemmed | Hospitals as disaster victims: Lessons not learned? |
title_short | Hospitals as disaster victims: Lessons not learned? |
title_sort | hospitals as disaster victims: lessons not learned? |
topic | Disaster Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8749465/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35036993 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12632 |
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