Hospital incident command system (HICS) performance in Iran; decision making during disasters
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Hospital incident command system (HICS) performance in Iran; decision making during disasters
BACKGROUND Hospitals are cornerstones for health care in a community and must continue to function in the face of a disaster. The Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) is a method by which the hospital operates when an emergency is declared. Hospitals are often ill equipped to evaluate the strengths and vulnerabilities of their own management systems before the occurrence of an actual disaste...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1757-7241
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-20-14