Introduction: Full-scale disaster drills are complex, expensive, and may involve hundreds or
thousands of people. However, even when carefully planned, they often fail to manifest the …

Introduction: Disaster drills are a valuable means of training healthcare providers to respond
to mass casualty incidents resulting from acts of terrorism or public health crises. We present …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to test a new disaster simulation suite (DSS),
evaluating its application during the same type of full-scale exercise on 2 different …

Objectives: High‐fidelity patient simulation provides lifelike medical scenarios with real‐time
stressors. Mass casualty drills must construct a realistic incident in which providers care for …

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

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 …

Introduction: Theoretically, simulation of disastrous situations has many advantages in that it
prepares hospital staff to cope with the real scenario. It is a challenge to create the database …

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 …

Introduction: Currently, there is no widely available method to evaluate an emergency
department disaster plan. Creation of a standardized patient data-base and the use of a …

Objectives: This evidence report identifies and synthesizes evidence on the effectiveness of
hospital disaster drills, computer simulations, and tabletop or other exercises in training …