Trial objectives

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

Thirty-seven participants completed simulation testing in a randomized study design with two visual display conditions (static and dynamic display).

 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 aim of the survey was to explore the practice of nurses’ basic care skills when they were deployed as part of first responder teams to the disaster site; identify their training needs; give information for disaster preparedness and response training.

RaDES concept: a theoretical method for forming, training, and using quickly deployable field teams to provide initial rapid post-disaster assessments.

tudy designed to assess and evaluate how the law shapes the public health system’s preparedness activitiesMultiple-site qualitative case-study to determine both how state and local public health and emergency management agencies are responding to emerging infectious disease threats, bioterrorism, and other public health preparedness challenges and how federal and state laws are shaping those processes.

Survey purpose was to assess basic knowledge of the hospital disaster plan and its procedures. All the three questionnaires (pre-test, immediate post-test, follow-up test) included the same questions with a different order each time.

The questionnaire included socio-economic and demographic characteristics of respondents, their knowledge, experiences and training needs about disaster early warning, preparedness and response. The questions particularly focused on common disasters including drought, flood, epidemic diseases and fire and traffic accidents.

This paper proposes a socio-physical approach that considers jointly the interaction and integration of the social and physical views of a system to improve emergency response and preparedness University case study: analyzing the merit of the socio-physical view in relation to the social and physical views in isolation.Case: Incident in the steam plant at a university in southwestern Ontario, Canada, resulted in the closure of the university for half-a-day.

The simulation system was developed based on the Multi-agent System (MAS) concept. Simulation of a maritime bulk yard consisting a resource network of 2000 nodes in a grid.