| The Role of Law in Public Health Preparedness: Opportunities and Challenges. | Summary
Sample sites were selected with explicit criteriaSemistructured interview protocol |
| The effectiveness of a disaster training programme for healthcare workers in Greece. | Summary
A structured questionnaire was used. It included an introductorystatement, eight demographic questions and 19 multiple-choiceknowledge questions, which had only one correct answer. |
| Knowledge, Experiences and Training Needs of Health Professionals about Disaster Preparedness and Response in Southwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study. | Summary
The designed questionnaire was pretested by involving the data collectors as part of their practical training |
| Disaster spread simulation and rescue time optimization in a resource network. | Summary
A simulator with three modules was designed: a time-triggered simulator, a simulation mechanism for a finite-state machine, and a network generator. |
| 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
In-depth interviews were conducted by twenty research assistants with research experience and trained in data collection specifically for this study. The interviews were conducted in the local languages.Daily supervision of interviewers and checking of completed interviews was done to ensure collection of accurate and complete data. |
| Physical and mental health status of soldiers responding to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. | Summary
The soldiers were asked to answer close-ended questions (yes/no) about physical and mental health symptoms they had experienced during the rescue mission |
| Burn Disaster Response Planning in New York City: Updated Recommendations for Best Practices. | Summary
Creation of a working group, monthly meetingsDevelopment of recommendations for best practices required coordinatedinvolvement of hospitals, government agencies and other health care institutions |
| The impact of an online interprofessional course in disaster management competency and attitude towards interprofessional learning. | Summary
undergraduate students in health and allied fields from five large,urban educational institutions.Three surveys were administered: a demographic survey, a disaster management competency surveyA quasi-experimental study using surveys was conducted using a pre-test, post-test design used to measure learners’ perceptions of change in their disaster management competencyThe research design may be described as triangulated as both survey and focus group methods were used. |
| Development, initial reliability and validity testing of an observational tool for assessing technical skills of operating room nurses. | Summary
The ICATS-N tool covers the following core skills:Growing and GlovingSetting up instrumentationDrapingMaintaining sterile field |
| Teaching Critical Management Skills to Senior Nursing Students: Videotaped or Interactive Hands-On Instruction? | Summary
Students were randomly allocated to one of three groups: control, video, or interactive learning. The principles of crisis resource management were used as a framework to develop six objectives that informed the interventions and the evaluation criteria used in the OSCE. |
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