Continued vigilance - development of an online evaluation tool for assessing preparedness of medical facilities for biological events

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Adini, Bruria ^a,b   Verbeek, Luzie ^c   Trapp, Susanna ^c   Schilling, Stefan ^d   Sasse, Julia ^c   Pientka, Kathrin ^e   Böddinghaus, Boris ^e   Schaefer, Helene ^c   Schempf, Jörg ^f   Brodt, Reinhard ^g   Wegner, Christian ^g   Lev, Boaz ^b   Laor, Daniel ^b   Gottschalk, Rene ^e   Biederbick, Walter ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d Children's Hospital Mönchengladbach   (Germany)

^e Health Protection Authority   (Germany)

^f CSO GmbH Software Solutions   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological event; Disaster management; Evaluation of emergency preparedness; Measurable indicators; Standard operating procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937642218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00035     Document Type: Article

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