| Using Real-Time Decision Tools to Improve Distributed Decision-Making Capabilities in High-Magnitude Crisis Situations. | Summary
U.S Department of Homeland Security training exercise called measured response (MR) where data streams from both simulation and real-world decision makers to the SVM tool.Survey (135 samples) and simulated Data |
| Disaster Preparedness in Philippine Nurses. | Summary
Two hundred nurses were invited to participate in the study, with 170 responses (105 hospital nurses and 65 community nurses) or an 85% response rate, during the months of April 2014 through July 2014. Data collection was based on interviews using a standardized instrument, the Disaster Preparedness Questionnaire. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, means, percentages, and standard deviations were utilized to quantify the responses.Self-report questionnaires consisted of two parts: (a) demographic information and (b) the Disaster Preparedness Questionnaire. |
| Mechanisms of Control in Emergent Interorganizational Networks. | Summary
The Drabek et al. data set |
| Improving Communication in Crisis Management by Evaluating the Relevance of Messages. | Summary
scene commanders of all three emergency services (police, fire service and emergency medical services)Standard procedure for the local commanders (CoPI) is that officers meet each other every 30 minutes in a container that is installed at the location of a crisis to discuss the situation and share information. In total such an exercise takes about one and a half hour.To register the voice-data we attached microphones to the outfits of the officers-in-charge. In this way we could register all walkietalkie traffic per channel and face-to-face communications of the officers-in-charge.automatically recorded by the centralist control room |
| Applying Analytical Hierarchy Process to Supplier Selection and Evaluation in the Hospitality Industry: A Multiobjective Approach | Summary
Surveys to validate the items on the list of factors (235 surveys sent)23 invalid (discarded)212 valid responses |
| The use of emergency operations centres in local government emergency management. | Summary
Survey of 48 organizations from New Zealand, Canada, and USA [out of 96 contacted] |
| Assessing and improving cross-border chemical incident preparedness and response across Europe. | Summary
Collection of publicly-available information regarding each MS (e.g. treaties and agreements)Web-based survey [81 completed vs. 514 sent] from 26 Member StatesTwo international workshops were then held to solicit feedback from experts from a range of organisations |
| Team Coordination in Escalating Situations: An Empirical Study Using Mid-Fidelity Simulation | Summary
The simulation sessions and the debriefing sessions were video recorded. |
| Crisis Management Dilemmas: Differences in Attitudes towards Reactive Crisis Communication Strategies among Future Business Professionals in Croatia | Summary
Survey methodology with 165 respondents129 students from the Faculty of Economics and Business36 students from the Faculty of Political Science |
| A priority driven ABC approach to the emergency management of high energy pelvic trauma improves decision making in simulated patient scenarios. | Summary
performed on the results of a formative assessment of trauma and orthopaedic trainees 6 weeks after a pelvic trauma management teaching event. Fifteen candidates were removed from the study due to not meeting the inclusion criteria. Nine candidates were randomised to the ‘control’ group and 11 candidates randomised to the ‘ABC’ teaching group. |
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