Knowledge and preparedness of healthcare providers towards bioterrorism.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several emergent circumstances require healthcare providers to recognize the unusual and dangerous and pathogenic agents. An in-depth literature review showed that studies about bioterrorism preparedness amongst healthcare providers are lacking. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the knowledge and preparedness level of first emergency respondents towards bioterrorism events.

Methods

This study has a cross-sectional design and was carried out at the Emergency departments and poison control centers/clinical laboratories three in major tertiary care hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The subjects were randomly selected to complete the self-administered questionnaire to collect study outcomes.

Results

A total of 1030 participants were included in the fi

SUBMITTER: Nofal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8097244 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature