Risk-based management of waterway safety

Armacost, Robert L.; Pet-Armacost, Julia

doi:10.1504/ijem.2002.000513

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“…The Emergency Capacity referred to in this study is the basic ability required for medical staff involved in emergency rescue of infectious disease emergencies, including relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes. The evaluation index system can be usually used to evaluate the emergency capacity of medical staff [13]. In order to understand the status of medical staff's emergency response capacity in this Pandemic, we adopted a medical staff's infectious disease emergency response capacity system and Emergency Preparedness Information Questionnaire (EPIQ) that has been improved to distribute a questionnaire online to hospitals in China.…”

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Evaluation and improvement of emergency capacity of medical staff for the COVID-19: A cross-sectional study in China

Chen

Liu

et al. 2020

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Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread to 215 countries around the world. In the studies of responding to public health emergencies, most of them are focused on health systems, local governments or medical organizations, but less on individuals. Medical staff, however, are the core strength for responding to public health emergencies. The aims of this study are to investigate the status of medical staff’s emergency capacity during the Pandemic and to provide intellectual support for further enhancing the medical staff's ability to ensure the smooth operation of medical rescue. Methods: This study conducted a cross-sectional survey of four hospitals, which were designated to treat patients with COVID-19 in China. Based on the emergency capacity system for infectious diseases of medical staff, an improved Emergency Preparedness Information Questionnaire was used to evaluate the emergency capacity of medical staff. Linear regression and one-way analysis of variance were used to test the difference in the emergency capacity of medical staff; Spearman correlation analysis was used to study the correlation between self-efficacy and emergency capacity of medical staff. Results: The overall emergency capacity of the surveyed medical staff was at a medium level. There was a correlation between emergency capacity and age, working years, position, educational background and area where medical staff work. Emergency capacity was not related to the hospital grades. Emergency capacity was significantly related to whether medical staff had participated in frontline Pandemic prevention work. There was also a positive correlation between emergency capacity and self-efficacy of medical staff. Conclusions: The results highlighted the importance of the training mechanism for emergency personnel. The emergency input for public health emergencies should be increased to improve the emergency capacity of medical staff. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the mental health of medical staff.

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Evaluation and improvement of emergency capacity of medical staff for the COVID-19: A cross-sectional study in China

Chen

Liu

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“…Scientific literature investigating on the effectiveness of emergency management interventions in all fields is huge, particularly concerning occupational health and safety (see for example Armacost and Pet-Armacost 2002), infectious diseases and Healthcare in general (see for example Maras and Miranda 2015), engineering, informatics.…”

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Setting research priorities in the field of emergency management: which piece of information are you willing to pay more?

Drago

Ruggeri

2019

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In this paper we show how EVPPI analysis can be a good tool to formalize the decision making process leading the design and implementation of interventions aimed at preventing and controlling the consequences of extraordinary events. More concretely we the economics of emergency as the approach aimed at defining how to identify which interventions would be more efficient to be implemented in order to minimize the risk of incurring in unexpected circumstances/events. Our rationale is that when dealing with complex decisions potentially leading to extraordinary circumstances, the first step for a decision makers should be to minimize the sources of uncertainty by mean of further research. This would inevitably entail investments and reallocation of resources. Our approach aims to define how to decide where is more efficient to intervene. Our paper provides a theoretical framework of the EVPPI and an application based on a hypothetical natural disaster. In the last section we discuss the limits of our approach and implications for further research.

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Risk-based management of waterway safety

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Evaluation and improvement of emergency capacity of medical staff for the COVID-19: A cross-sectional study in China

Evaluation and improvement of emergency capacity of medical staff for the COVID-19: A cross-sectional study in China

Setting research priorities in the field of emergency management: which piece of information are you willing to pay more?

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