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 …

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 …

Disaster drills are an effective way to test a hospital's preparedness for real-life disasters, but
an extensive amount of coordination and time is necessary to host a successful drill with a …

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 …

Purpose The purpose of the abridged evaluation tool is to provide institutions with an
instrument designed to capture the most critical aspects of disaster drill activities. In cases in …

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

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

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 …

Disaster simulations (drills) are widely used throughout the world and are considered a
fundamental tool for evaluation and improvement of local disaster response capacity …