two validated ways of improving the ability of decision-making in emergencies; results from a literature review

the aim of the current review wasto study the existing knowledge about decision-making and to identify and describe validated training tools.a comprehensive literature review was conducted by using the following keywords: decision-making, emergencies, disasters, crisis management, training, exercises, simulation, validated, real-time, command and control, communication, collaboration, and multi-disciplinary in combination or as an isolated word. two validated training systems developed in sweden, 3 level collaboration (3lc) and macsim, were identified and studied in light of the literature review in order to identify how decision-making can be trained. the training models fulfilled six of the eight identified characteristics of training for decision-making.based on the results, these training models contained methods suitable to train for decision-making.