Introduction: Recently, mass-casualty incident (MCI) preparedness and training has
received increasing attention at the hospital level. Objectives: To review the existing …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Evidence-based medical literature is lacking about the best methods to
train health care providers in disaster response. We systematically review the recent …

ObjectiveThe objectives of this study were to develop a novel training model for using mass-
casualty incident (MCI) scenarios that trained hospital and prehospital staff together using …

Introduction: Recent events have brought disaster medicine into the public focus. Both the
government and communities expect hospitals to be prepared to cope with all types of …

The objective of this study was to assess the attitudes of emergency medical technicians
(EMTs) toward tabletop drills to determine the effect of tabletop simulation on the EMT …

Background Although training and education have long been accepted as integral to
disaster preparedness, many currently taught practices are neither evidence-based nor …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: There is currently no validated method for assessing hospital disaster
preparedness. We determine the degree of correlation between the results of 3 methods for …

Objectives: The objectives of the study were to develop and evaluate an “all-hazards”
hospital disaster preparedness training course that utilizes a combi-nation of classroom …

Background Adequate training and preparation of medical first responders (MFRs) are
essential for an optimal performance in highly demanding situations like disasters (eg, mass …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: The Joint Commission requires hospitals to implement 2 disaster drills
per year to test the response phase of their emergency management plans. Despite this …