Consensus on key domains for emergency medical teams deployment evaluation: a Delphi method study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) deploy to provide urgent care during and after sudden onset disasters. Although the World Health Organisation has set standards for EMTs on training, personnel, and operations, there is presently no standardised evaluation framework to assess deployments.

Methods

As a step towards creation of an EMT deployment evaluation framework with an agreed upon common set of criteria, we used a two-round modified Delphi method to elicit perspectives from key stakeholders, including EMT members, researchers, funders, representatives of deploying governments, and host organisations. We asked participants to rate themes and questions relevant to EMT evaluation, derived from a previous study, using a four-point Likert scale, with consensus considere

SUBMITTER: Yeung T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12927219 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature