Practice, disaster preparation training needs, and associated factors in nursing staffs operating at Amhara regional state referral hospitals in Ethiopia [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Background: Natural & human-made disasters are occurring at alarming rates around the world, necessitating more training and preparing frontline emergency department nurses.
Lehulu Tilahun Yirdaw +4 more
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Systematic review on the current state of disaster preparation Simulation Exercises (SimEx). [PDF]
BMC Emerg Med, 2023 Introduction The simulation exercise (SimEx) simulates an emergency in which an elaboration or description of the response is applied. The purpose of these exercises is to validate and improve plans, procedures, and systems for responding to all hazards.
Mahdi SS +8 more
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Disaster preparation in kidney transplant recipients: a questionnaire-based cohort study from a large United States transplant center . [PDF]
Clin Nephrol, 2018 Background: Few quantitative assessments have assessed disaster preparation in kidney transplant patients. This is a survey-based assessment of disaster preparedness of 200 patients at the University of California San Francisco, USA.
Sharief S, Freitas D, Adey D, Wiley J.
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Katrina's Legacy: Processes for Patient Disaster Preparation Have Improved but Important Gaps Remain. [PDF]
Am J Med Sci, 2016 Background: Ensuring continuity of care for patients with chronic illness, who are elderly or indigent presents unique challenges after disasters; this population has fewer financial resources, is less likely to evacuate, has limited access to recovery ...
Icenogle M, Eastburn S, Arrieta M.
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A Stochastic Multi-Commodity Logistic Model for Disaster Preparation in Distribution Systems
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2020 This paper proposes a stochastic optimization approach for disaster preparation in distribution systems. For an upcoming storm, utilities should have a preparation plan that includes warehousing restoration supplies, securing staging sites (depots), and ...
Anmar Arif, Zhaoyu Wang, Chen Chen
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Teachers-parents cooperation in disaster preparation when schools become as evacuation centers
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020 Various initiatives have been taken for disaster preparedness since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Disaster education and management at schools have been strengthened.
Hiromi Kawasaki +2 more
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Understanding community residents’ disaster preparedness: is cognitive resilience a solution? [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Effective disaster preparedness is essential for public health. This study examined how sociodemographic factors and cognitive flexibility relate to disaster preparedness among urban community residents.
Berna Cakir, Celalettin Cevik
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Sichuan is a province in Southwest China that is famous worldwide for its earthquakes. However, few quantitative studies in China have probed the correlations between rural households’ financial preparation, disaster experience, and disaster-risk ...
Dingde Xu, Zhuolin Yong, Xin Deng
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Disaster preparedness of Australian hospital networks: a qualitative study with key actors [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjective Disasters can have a disproportionate impact on highly vulnerable hospitalised patients. Managers preparing hospital networks for disasters play an important role in enhancing networks’ readiness by creating disaster plans and imparting that ...
Jeffrey Braithwaite +4 more
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Health in Emergencies & Disasters Quarterly, 2021 Background: Nurses play an essential role in the hospital’s response to accidents and disasters. Assessing nurses’ preparedness is the starting point to improve and increase their preparedness for disasters. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the
Hamidreza Shabanikiya +2 more
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