Establishing the Domains of a Hospital Disaster Preparedness Evaluation Tool: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Recent disasters emphasize the need for disaster risk mitigation in the health sector. A lack of standardized tools to assess hospital disaster preparedness hinders the improvement of emergency/disaster preparedness in hospitals. There is very limited research on evaluation of hospital disaster preparedness tools.

Objective

This study aimed to determine the presence and availability of hospital preparedness tools across the world, and to identify the important components of those study instruments.

Method

A systematic review was performed using three databases, namely Ovid Medline, Embase, and CINAHL, as well as available grey literature sourced by Google, relevant websites, and also from the reference lists of selected articles. The studies published on

SUBMITTER: Munasinghe NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9470528 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature