Top ten knowledge DB entries related to Methodological Lessons Learned are listed below.
Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER): An Innovative Emergency Management Tool in the United States.
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CASPER trainings are successful in increasing epidemiology skills. CASPER can be used by Public Health program awardees to help build and sustain preparedness and capabilities.CASPER is an effective and frequently employed for public health managementThe use of CASPER as a public health emergency preparedness and can increase state and local public health emergency response capacities.Although originally designed for response, CASPERs can be used throughout the disaster life cycle and in nondisaster situations, and they can can contribute to informing jurisdictional assessmentsSome areas have been indentified for future improvementThe majority (80.0%) of CASPERs did not document implementation of recommendations based on CASPER findings.Disseminating CASPER findings and sharing with the wider public health community are important to highlight common problems and opportunities for improvement that exist across many communities

Traffic evacuation simulation based on multi-level driving decision model.
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The authors plan to integrate additional factors to better simulate the outcomes of evacuation-related decisions. Such as varying types of evacuation agents, including vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians.The authors will also study how psychological characteristics affect drivers’ behaviors, especially how such affects might be integrated into an agent’s decision model in which evacuation rates can be estimated with varying proportions of agents failing to follow an evacuation plan.

Testing a methodology to improve organizational learning about crisis communication by public organizations.
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It also presents a series of first test findings but not as yet the results of improvements initiated by using the instrument.The indicators were considered relevant and important but too many in number. Therefore, a possibility to use the instrument in three separate parts, relating respectively to the period before, during and after a , should be offered.

Using Twitter in crisis management for organizations bearing different country-of-origin perceptions.
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- the findings are based on one single fictional coffeemaker , with only one type of crisis examined,- the study only examines the effects of during the crisis phase- the participants included in this study cannot be considered as random- the effect sizes for different factors revealed in this study are fairly small

Challenges in coordination: differences in perception of civil and military organizations by comparing international scientific literature and field experiences.
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It is necessary to discuss the generalizability and validity of the findings internationally.

Towards the development of a decision support system for multi-agency decision-making during cross-border emergencies.
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good approach in design and developmentnevertheless ongoing work, should be tracked further (own opinion, not stated in the paper)

Relationships Between Mental Health Distress and Work-Related Factors Among Prefectural Public Servants Two Months After the Great East Japan Earthquake.
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Clear comparision of survey variables.Facilitating workplace communication appeared important for both groups of workers. (severely damaged and less damaged workers)

Examining the Role of Social Media in Effective Crisis Management: The Effects of Crisis Origin, Information Form, and Source on Publics’ Crisis Responses.
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included only one public, college students, in a series of university situations. Additional experiments are needed with different publics and different crisis situations that highly involve these publics, so as to test whether the causal effects of crisis information form and source hold valid and reliable across different publics.additional research is needed to further segment public types by media consumption habits and level of involvement with the organization in crisisimportant for future research to also explore the synergistic impact of multiple forms and sources of crisis information dissemination.

Group value and intention to use – A study of multi-agency disaster management information systems for public safety
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the studied subjects were real management personnel on duty, which limited the time to survey and interview them after the exerciselarge number of stakeholders usually involved in multi-agency management environments makes it extremely difficult to reach a consensus on the measure

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