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Assessment of Hospital Emergency Management in the Beijing Area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2011

Xin Yantao
Xin Yantao*
Affiliation:
Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
*
Correspondence: Xin Yantao Beijing Ditan Hospital Capital Medical UniversityNo. 8 Jingshun Dongjie Chaoyang DistrictBeijing 100015China E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Introduction: In recent years, the number of public health emergencies has increased. Improving hospital emergency management is an important challenge.

Objective: This is a pilot study intended to assess hospital emergency management in the Beijing area, make recommendations to government health authorities and hospital managers, and offer references for similar studies.

Methods: This was an observational, cross-sectional survey. Forty-five hospitals in the Beijing area were selected randomly. A self-administered questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. It comprised of three sections: (1) Section A was the introduction; (2) Section B asked for the respondent's personal information; and (3) Section C comprised the major part of the questionnaire and was intended to gather information regarding the hospital's general emergency management situation.

Results: The survey response rate was 44%, accounting for 29% of total hospitals that the study targeted. No hospital had an established emergency management department or full-time staff for emergency management. A total of 15–45% of the hospitals had established a hospital emergency management committee, performed a vulnerability analysis, or evaluated emergency management regularly. Twenty-five percent of respondents thought that the local government health authority had established an integrated hospital incident command system. A total of 40%–55% of hospitals contracted with outside institutions for supplements, backup of key functional systems and professional support.

Conclusions: After the occurrence of the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, Chinese hospital managers took many measures to improve hospital resilience. However, most of these efforts lacked the guidance of theories, concepts, principles, and methods. An integrated, standardized, operational hospital emergency management model has not been established. Although the survey response rate was relatively low, some clues for further study were discovered, and suggestions to the health authority for hospital emergency management improvement were revealed.

Keywords

assessmentemergency managementhospital managementpublic health
Type
Original Research
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2011 , pp. 180 - 183
Copyright
Copyright Xin © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2011

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