@article{ref1,
title="Benchmarking for hospital evacuation: a critical data collection tool",
journal="Prehospital and disaster medicine",
year="2005",
author="Schultz, C. H. and Koenig, Kristi L. and Auf der Heide, E. and Olson, Ryan",
volume="20",
number="5",
pages="331-342",
abstract="In events such as earthquakes or terrorist attacks, hospitals may be victims of disasters. They may need to transfer patients to outside facilities rather than continue to provide on-site care. Following the Northridge earthquake, eight hospitals in the damaged area were the foci of a United States National Science Foundation study that examined the status of the hospitals' pre-event planning, post-event evacuation decision-making, and internal and external evacuation processes. Building on this experience, this paper offers a standardized data collection tool, which will enable researchers to record hospital evacuation information in a systematic manner so that comparable data can be accumulated, evacuation research methods can be improved, and consensus on methods can be reached. The study's principal subjects include: (1) hospital demographics; (2) description of existing disaster response plans; (3) an event's impacts on hospital operations; (4) decision-making and incident command; (5) movement of patients within the facility; (6) movement of patients to off-site institutions; and (7) hospital recovery.",
language="",
issn="1049-023X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}