The reliability of the Johns Hopkins/AHRQ drill performance evaluation tool was evaluated by applying it to multiple hospitals in Los Angeles County, CA, participating in the November 2005 California statewide disaster drill.

The main pillars the interview revolved around were: (i) communication and information: understanding the main flow of communication between the different actors and the information they need to fulfill their missions and wherethey look for them; (ii) understanding interviewees’ experience about the use of ADIAM systems and expertise.

cross-sectional study used questionnaires tailoredto 4 groups: consultant microbiologists (M), infectionpreventionists (IP), public health physicians (PHP),and public health nurses (PHN).Each group’s questionnaire was designed based on in-depth interviews with professionals in that groupAll interviewees had been actively involved in one or more of 4 recent crisis situations due to infectious outbreaks in The Netherlands: severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

The interviews explored six main topics: existing community EHEP outreach and activitiesreadiness to engage communities in EHEP outreachbenefits, barriers, and risks to engaging communities in EHEP outreachperceived community emergency and disaster resiliencethe role of social capital and social cohesion in disaster preparedness and response personal emergency preparedness

Major topical areas covered in the interview guide included:the establishment and history of the coalitionstrengths and weaknesses of the HCC structurespecific challenges encountered in improving health care systems preparedness capabilities‘‘promising practices’’ to be shared with other coalition leaders. Questions

The overarching goal of the guidelines was to outline a disaster response that allows for large numbers of burn injured victims to be cared for 3 to 5 days afteran event until such time that tertiary burn care can be secured or the patient is safe for discharge with appropriate follow-up outpatient care.

The aim of this study was to identify the perception-related challenges in civil–military coordination, and how they are perceived in the field by civil and military teams, and to investigate whether perception-related challenges and their implications have been reported in the international literature.

To demonstrate how inclusion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention´s Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) as a tool in Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning can increase public health capacity for emergency response

In this study, the design of the four approaches and their methodological backgrounds are explained in detail, while simultaneously elaborating on the preferred application domains for the different algorithms. The advantages and disadvantages of the four approaches are identified by qualitatively as well as quantitatively evaluating the water masks derived from data of the TanDEM-X mission for five test sites located in Vietnam, China, Germany, Mali, and the Netherlands.

e implementation of a computer-based, collaborative training prototype foremergency response in a Department of Transportation and its ability to improve organizational communication, resources and methods utilization, and best actions to follow in order to mitigate emergencies