Methodological Lessons Learned

This study was limited by the small number of hospitals and the modest number of

Observer participant who witnesses the exercise while remaining separate from exercise activities.
Note 1 to entry: Observers may be part of the evaluation process.

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pairs. Because only 6 of 17 hospitals agreed to participate, there is a possibility the hospitals were not representative.

An important limitation of the study was the small sample size.Also, the relative limited experience of many participants

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 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

Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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resulted in reduced power in the subgroup analysis.External validity of the study was poor because the Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles.

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course that was developed cannot be used by hospitals worldwide without being adjusted first.

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

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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situations, they were excluded from the study

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.

The models, computational approaches and simulation system devised in this study are far from being a practical

A solution is a means that contributes to a crisis management function. A solution is either one or more processes or one or more tools with related procedures.

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to address the problems of

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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spread and control in resource networks.The study has not been verified with reference to concrete Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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spread and rescue practice.

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

Operational feasibility of these guidelines has not yet been tested nor established

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

Actions taken during or immediately after a disaster in order to save lives, reduce health impacts, ensure public safety and meet the basic subsistence needs of the people affected.

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set bias.