Modeling Hospitals’ Adaptive Capacity during a Loss of Infrastructure Services

et al. 2020

BMC Health Serv Res

Background: Hospitals play a vital role in disaster stricken regions. The resilient hospitals will be able to provide essential services to affected people and it can mitigate the risk of injuries during and after disasters. This study aimed to obtain the indicators required for the evaluation of hospital resilience. Methods: This systematic review was conducted in 2018. Through this systematic review, international electronic databases were investigated for the research studies published in English. The exclusion and inclusion criteria were determined to extract the hospital resilience indicators. These indicators will be used in order to develop a model to keep the system performance at an acceptable level during disasters. Results: Out of 1794 research studies published until September 2018, 89 articles and guidelines with full text were surveyed. Thirty-two articles and guidelines were then selected and analyzed to collect the indicators related to hospital disaster resilience (HDR). The domains and the indicators were extracted from these selected research studies. The authors collected and categorized them into three domains and twenty seven subdomains. The three domains included constructive, infrastructural, and administrative resilience. The relevant indicators were designed for each subdomain to assess HDR. Conclusion: Since diverse indicators affect hospital resilience, other studies should be conducted to propose some models or tools to quantify the hospital resilience in different countries and scopes with an all hazards approach.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards developing a model for the evaluation of hospital disaster resilience: a systematic review

Fallah‐Aliabadi

et al. 2020

BMC Health Serv Res

“…To achieve this aim, the included articles concentrated on the importance of hospital resilience by surveying the building and utility situation in disasters, but most of them focused more on electrical and water utilities and transportation networks in hospitals (28,30,35,42,44,46,48,50,59). It showed that other utilities in hospitals like communication system, gas supply system, sewage system and also non-structural components of buildings such as architectural elements have been less considered.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Developing a Model for the Evaluation of Hospital Disaster Resilience: A Systematic Review

Aliabadi

et al. 2019

Preprint

Background: Hospitals play a vital role in disaster stricken regions. The resilience of hospitals conducts related services without interruption and it can mitigate the risk of the injuries during and after disasters. The aim of this paper was to obtain the indicators required for the evaluation of hospital resilience. Methods: This systematic review was conducted in 2018. Through this systematic review, the international electronic databases were investigated for the researches published in English. The exclusion and inclusion criteria were determined to extract the effective indicators resilience of the structural and non-structural parts in hospitals in order to develop a model to keep the system performance at an acceptable level. Results: Out of 1794 researches that were published until September 2018, 89 articles and guidelines with full text were surveyed. 32 articles and guidelines were then selected and analyzed to collect the indicators related to hospital disaster resilience (HDR). Initially, the domains and the indicators were extracted from these selected researches. Conclusion: As our suggested model, the indicators categorized into three domains including constructive, infrastructural and also administrative resilience. Also, 27 subdomains proposed that the indicators were designed to be the component for each of them. Since diverse indicators affect hospital resilience, therefore, other studies should be conducted to propose some models or tools to quantify the hospital resilience in different countries and scopes with an all hazard approach. Key words: Disaster; Hospital; Resilience; Structural and non-structural systems; Indicators;

“…Instead, the indicators that described the structural and non-structural characteristics and also administrative and functional activities concerning structural and non-structural systems included in this study. Most of the articles focused more on electrical and water utilities and transportation networks in hospitals (34,36,40,47,49,50,52,54,60). The literature showed that other utilities in hospitals like communication system, gas supply system, sewage system and also non-structural components of buildings such as architectural elements have been less considered.…”

Section: Thematic Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Developing a Model for the Evaluation of Hospital Disaster Resilience: A Systematic Review

Aliabadi

et al. 2019

Preprint

Background: Hospitals play a vital role in disaster stricken regions. The resilient hospitals will be able to provide essential services to affected people and it can mitigate the risk of injuries during and after disasters. The aim of this paper was to obtain the indicators required for the evaluation of hospital resilience. Methods: This systematic review was conducted in 2018. Through this systematic review, the international electronic databases were investigated for the researches published in English. The exclusion and inclusion criteria were determined to extract the hospital resilience indicators. These indicators were used in order to develop a model to keep the system performance at an acceptable level during disasters. Results: Out of 1794 researches that were published until September 2018, 89 articles and guidelines with full text were surveyed. Thirty-two articles and guidelines were then selected and analyzed to collect the indicators related to hospital disaster resilience (HDR). The domains and the indicators were extracted from these selected researches. We suggested a model including three domains and twenty seven subdomains. The three domains were constructive, infrastructural and administrative resilience. The relevant indicators were designed for each subdomain to measure the HDR. Conclusion ; Since diverse indicators affect hospital resilience, therefore, other studies should be conducted to propose some models or tools to quantify the hospital resilience in different countries and scopes with an all hazard approach. Key words : Disaster; Hospital; Resilience; Structural and non-structural systems; Indicators;