Decision to evacuate a hospital during an emergency: The safe way or the leader's way

Journal of Public Health Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 257-268

  Adini, Bruria ^a,b   Laor, Daniel ^a,b   Cohen, Robert ^a,b   Israeli, Avi ^a,c  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emergency; Hospital evacuation; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RESCUE WORK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DECISION MAKING; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; PATIENT TRANSFER; RESCUE WORK; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 84860783085     PISSN: 01975897     EISSN: 1745655X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jphp.2012.2     Document Type: Article

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