Rethinking preparedness planning in disaster emergency care: lessons from a beyond-surge-capacity event.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large-scale burn disasters can produce casualties that threaten medical care systems. This study proposes a new approach for developing hospital readiness and preparedness plan for these challenging beyond-surge-capacity events.

Methods

The Formosa Fun Coast Dust Explosion (FFCDE) was studied. Data collection consisted of in-depth interviews with clinicians from four initial receiving hospitals and their relevant hospital records. A detailed timeline of patient flow and emergency department (ED) workload changes of individual hospitals were examined to build the EDs' overload patterns. Data analysis of the multiple hospitals' responses involved chronological process-tracing analysis, synthesis, and comparison analysis in developing an integrated adaptations framew

SUBMITTER: Chuang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8628445 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature