| Assessment of the reliability of the Johns Hopkins/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality hospital disaster drill evaluation tool. | Summary
This study was limited by the small number of hospitals and the modest number of observer pairs. Because only 6 of 17 hospitals agreed to participate, there is a possibility the hospitals were not representative. |
| A survey of the practice of nurses' skills in Wenchuan earthquake disaster sites: implications for disaster training. | Summary
An important limitation of the study was the small sample size.Also, the relative limited experience of many participants |
| The Rapid Disaster Evaluation System (RaDES): A Plan to Improve Global Disaster Response by Privatizing the Assessment Component. | Summary
Whereas simulations can demonstrate RaDES efficacy and weaknesses, only funding an agency to prepare teams and field test them will demonstrate its practicability.implementation faces logistical, funding, and political obstacles. |
| The effectiveness of a disaster training programme for healthcare workers in Greece. | Summary
The opportunistic selection process that was used in order to include individualsin the comparison group was open to selection bias.Relatively small number of participants in the training resulted in reduced power in the subgroup analysis.External validity of the study was poor because the training course that was developed cannot be used by hospitals worldwide without being adjusted first. |
| Knowledge, Experiences and Training Needs of Health Professionals about Disaster Preparedness and Response in Southwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study. | Summary
Recall bias might have been introduced as the respondents were asked about events that occurred in the past.although private practitioners are important stakeholders during major disaster situations, they were excluded from the study |
| A Socio-Physical Approach to Systemic Risk Reduction in Emergency Response and Preparedness. | Summary
The current work considers only static snapshots of the network, but changes to the system (e.g., from hazards or accidents) will impact the network topology. |
| Disaster spread simulation and rescue time optimization in a resource network. | Summary
The models, computational approaches and simulation system devised in this study are far from being a practical solution to address the problems of disaster spread and control in resource networks.The study has not been verified with reference to concrete disaster spread and rescue practice. |
| Health worker and policy-maker perspectives on use of intramuscular artesunate for pre-referral and definitive treatment of severe malaria at health posts in Ethiopia. | Summary
Translation from local languages to Amharic and then to English may have affected interpretation of the results to some extent.The results of this study may not be generalizable but may be transferable to similar setting |
| Burn Disaster Response Planning in New York City: Updated Recommendations for Best Practices. | Summary
Operational feasibility of these guidelines has not yet been tested nor established |
| The impact of an online interprofessional course in disaster management competency and attitude towards interprofessional learning. | Summary
It is possible that students, completing the two, 29-item post-course RIPLS surveys, one directly after another, did not read the negatively worded items carefully and demonstrated response set bias. |
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