Emergency management and internal audit of emergency preparedness of pre-hospital emergency care

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-020-01039-w" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-020-01039-w</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-020-01039-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11135-020-01039-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Emergency management and internal audit of emergency preparedness of pre-hospital emergency care

Original language description

One of the negative components of international travel is the higher likelihood of emergencies that affect a large number of people (mass negative impact on health), for example the transmission of infectious diseases, as e.g. SARS CoV-2 pandemic. The frequency and sources of mass-casualty incidents are currently changing dynamically, especially with the onset of terrorist attacks and large-scale natural disasters. Health services and emergency medical service (EMS) take part in addressing these emergencies. For this reason, this paper deals with the EMS emergency preparedness in the Czech Republic for an emergency events with a large number of affected people. EMS in the Czech Republic are not provided by the state but by individual regions. EMS in the Czech Republic do not have central management, nor do they use uniform data documentation. The investigation of the current situation has shown that the attitudes of EMS in individual regions of the Czech Republic to the tasks of emergency preparedness for mass casualty incidents are not identical. The current method of evaluating improvements in the quality of EMS emergency preparedness lacks consistency and is not comprehensively supervised. To tackle this, the paper presents an internal audit methodology for assessing the level of emergency preparedness of the emergency medical services. The authors therefore defined the decisive criteria and indicators assessing the quality level of EMS emergency preparedness at major disaster with multiple victim incident. When developing the methodological procedure of the preparedness evaluation, an algorithm was chosen, based on the gradual verification of the evaluation criteria and indicators by an expert group. Some findings and recommendations based on a research carried out in EMS in individual regions of the Czech Republic are presented.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace<br>N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Quality and Quantity

ISSN

0033-5177

e-ISSN

1573-7845

Volume of the periodical

57

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

293-305

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85091802190