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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

The Impact of Experience, Length of Service, and Workplace Preparedness in Physicians' Readiness in the Response to Disasters.

Krzysztof Goniewicz, Mariusz Goniewicz, Frederick M Burkle, Amir Khorram-Manesh

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Krzysztof GoniewiczDepartment of Aviation Security, Military University of Aviation, 08-521 Dęblin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4368-6850
Mariusz GoniewiczDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Lublin, 20-059 Lublin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-3004-6195
Frederick M BurkleHarvard Humanitarian Initiative, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Amir Khorram-ManeshDepartment of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, 413 45 Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-2734-5733

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With an increasing number of natural and man-made disasters, the need for preparedness in all levels of management is obvious. Among healthcare professionals responding to these emergencies, physicians are of particular importance due to their significant roles as leaders and frontline workers in minimizing morbidity and mortality of the affected population. This study analyses the preparedness of 549 physicians from all medical centers in Lublin, Poland to formulate their observations, suggestions, and recommendations concerning the improvement of the chain of response in disaster management. The results of this study show that the perceived preparedness of physicians for disaster management and response is not as high as it should be, and the majority of the respondents perceived their disaster preparedness insufficient. Training of physicians in disaster management and principles of disaster medicine is needed, by focusing on the specificity of rescue response to emergencies following disasters, and medical and non-medical aspects of the response with particular emphasis on a management approach covering all hazards.

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disaster preparednessemergency preparednesshospitalphysicians’ preparedness

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PMID33081255
PMCPMC7603037

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