• Disasters · Apr 2014

    Health care system hazard vulnerability analysis: an assessment of all public hospitals in Abu Dhabi.

    • Saleh Fares, Meg Femino, Assaad Sayah, Debra L Weiner, Eugene Sun Yim, Sheila Douthwright, Michael Sean Molloy, Furqan B Irfan, Mohamed Ali Karkoukli, Robert Lipton, Jonathan L Burstein, Mariam Al Mazrouei, and Gregory Ciottone.
    • Adjunct faculty member in the Disaster Medicine Section, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, an adjunct faculty member in the Division of Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and Head of the Emergency Department, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
    • Disasters. 2014 Apr 1;38(2):420-33.

    AbstractHazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) is used to risk-stratify potential threats, measure the probability of those threats, and guide disaster preparedness. The primary objective of this project was to analyse the level of disaster preparedness in public hospitals in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, utilising the HVA tool in collaboration with the Disaster Medicine Section at Harvard Medical School. The secondary objective was to review each facility's disaster plan and make recommendations based on the HVA findings. Based on the review, this article makes eight observations, including on the need for more accurate data; better hazard assessment capabilities; enhanced decontamination capacities; and the development of hospital-specific emergency management programmes, a hospital incident command system, and a centralised, dedicated regional disaster coordination centre. With this project, HVAs were conducted successfully for the first time in health care facilities in Abu Dhabi. This study thus serves as another successful example of multidisciplinary emergency preparedness processes.© 2014 The Author(s). Disasters © Overseas Development Institute, 2014.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…

What will the 'Medical Journal of You' look like?

Start your free 21 day trial now.

We guarantee your privacy. Your email address will not be shared.