Trauma hospital preparedness against natural and man-made disasters: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this study is to investigate the trauma hospital preparedness in disasters of 2019.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted in two qualitative and quantitative phases. Data were collected retrospectively in the quantitative part through census and in the qualitative part through semi-structured interviews. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis, respectively.

Results

The Hazard of the trauma hospital in 2019 were divided into two categories: natural (floods) and man-made (floods, street riots, incidence of COVID-19). 93% of all hazards were attributed to the spread of COVID-19, 5.4% to disturbances and 1.6% to floods. In the quantitative part, from 227 extracted codes, two main t

SUBMITTER: Mohammadinia L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11884188 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature